The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1907-04-11

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ton. Here are other samples below
the three per cent guarantee and are
liable the same penalty as above.
Sample 221-Monarch Vegetable
Grower, sample at Pendleton Janu-
uary 2Sth, off S1.23, penalty to pur-
chaser $3.50, value of shortage ST.
%, total amount of claim due pur-
chaser $4.92 per ton. Sample S.
Va. c. G. Co., sample at Cowpens
29th january, Al per cent off, lis-
billty peralty to purchaser 1882
per ton.
The following are liable to the
purchaser for the sample shortage
only as they don't come under the
head of three per cent penalty &C.
cording to our figures.
Sample 1l7-Nitrate Soda, Eli
wan F. Co., sample at Pinewood,
21st January, short. Sl.45.,
Sample 22s-Wando, Va. g. G..
Co., sample at Honea Path 9Th Feb
rualy, so cts. per ton short.
Sample 4S4-Nitrate Soda, Ds-
comoke G. Co., sample at Lexington
sud February, short rs cts. per ton.
There are perhaps ten more cou-
panies that have fa lien below money
value from 10 cts. to go cts. per ton
on certain shipments which should
put all users of fertilizer on the
watch out and keep up with the
Fertilizer Bulletin sent out to All
applicants by H. NJ. Stackhol'se,
Secretary Board Fertilizer Control,
Clemson College, S G.
If any of our Farmers. Uhion
members have already bought any
of the mentioned fertilizers that are
short iu value, our Union Bureau
would advise you FIRST to make out
a careful statement in money value
according to shortage and present
your claim to the local agent or fac.
tory that sold you the goods, and no
doubt if your claim is based upon
actual shortage in money value the
manufacturer of the goods could not
refuse to paya just claim. Other.
wise, if you are sure that your claim
is d just one, and the manufacturer
refuses to settle the matter, this
would be prima facie evidence that
/ fraud was intended at the start and
proceedings should be taken at once
through your business agent to
recover the loss.
After establishing the fact that
the price of fertilizers was raised
this year and at the same time the
quality Of the goods reduced, there
Is no jury in the country that would
stand for a rake-off both going and
coming, as this fact apnears to be.
In looking over the Fertilizer
Bulletin we find quite number of
samples from different manufactures
that are short in some one of the
three important ingredien,s-ammo-
MIA, phosphoric acid or potash; but
as the money value in the shortage
has been made up in the excess on
other ingredients the companies fall
ing short under these circumstances
are not amenable to penalties under
the last fertilizer law for this, as the
fertilizer men claim unavoidable err
ror that sometimes come to the best
management in their manipulation
of ingredients.
But, however, if the farmer has
an idea that this ever can be avoided
be has remedy In buying his in
gradients in large wholesale lots and
doing his own manipulating Of his
fertilizers, which no doubt car be
done on most farms with consider
able profit, outside of TIE comfort
of knowing that he Is not liable to
be getting the shortage on one point
where some other man is getting the
long end Of some ingredient that he
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