The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-03-17
To the Farmers!

about our ammoniated fertilizers.
The acid and meal season is about
over. Those who use acid and meal
haul it home early in the season so
that they can mix it. The season for
ammoniated goods commence later,
and, in fact, is about starting now.
There is not much difference in acids;
one acid is about as good as another.
It is all made of phosphate rock,
bone phosphate lime), crushed and
treated with sulphuric acid. That is
how you get your acid phosphate and
one fertilizer company turns out
about as good quality of this goods
as another. The difference in fertil-
izer is in ammoniated goods. Am
goods are made by taking
this same acid phosphate and mix
ing it with ammoniates, blood tank
age, nitrate of soda, cotton seed
meal, sulphate of ammonia, garbage.
Now, some of these ammoniates do
heir work and exhaust more quick
w than others and so by properly
mixing and manipulating our am
we have gotten a fertilizer
hat will nourish the plant from the
lime it sprouts, all during the grow
.ng season, during the laying-by sea-
;on and up to the time the plant is
natured and ready to be gathered.
Take for instance nitrate Of soda. 1t
Icts quickly and exhausts. Cotton
eed meal will come in next; it Will
dissolve and assimulate with the soil
md become a plant food. 1t all has
o dissolve and assimulate with the
oil before it becomes a plant food,
ust as when you plant a grain OF
,orn it has to germinate before 1t
.omes up. Tankage come in next
md then blood, which lasts until the
.rop is matured and ready to be
,athered. So, by taking the differ
mt kinds of ammoniates in the
proportion, one coming in as
me exhausts, we have a fertilizer
hat will feed and nourish the plant
rom the time it sprouts until it is
'eady to be gathered. That is a COM
,lete fertilizer and unless it does that
t, is not a complete fertilizer. 1t
loes not matter where you get it, 1t
s not a complete fertilizer unless it
eeds and nourishes the plant from
he time it sprouts until the crop is
eady to be gathered. These ammo
hates are very expensive; that is
Why ammoniated goods costs more
han acids. Take sulphate of am
it costs $64 per ton laid
Town at the factory. We have
quite a lot of this and are
lsing it in fertilizers that we sell for
ess than $50 per ton, just because we
want to make the right kind of
goods that will make the
,rop grow and keep growing and
will make a man take a pride in his
,rop. Our ammoniated goods used
IN lands that are p.epared and Guilt
as the farmer in this section
prepare and cultivate their
ands, will get all out Of the land
here is in it and a farmer should not
De satisfied with making the land do
ess than that. The trouble about
Using a cheap fertilizer is just this:
by the time you find out it is no &C.
count you have lost a crop and you
nave lost a years work and the only
hing you, can do is to wait until
next year and try again and fertilize
light.
Every sample of our goods that
has been analysed at Clemson College
-an way above our analysis which
shows that we are making the right
Kind of goods. There is absolutely
no adulteration in the fertilizers we
ire making. They are made of bone
of lime ammoniates and
nothing else. There is nothing bet
Ter made. Our goods will feed and
flourish the plant from the time it
sprouts until it is ready to be gath
ared and that is the kind of goods