The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-03-24
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.
1t is all made of phosphate rock,
bone phosphate lime), crushed and
treated with sulphuric acid. That Isl
how you get your acid phosphate and
one fertilizer company turns out
about as good quality of this goods
IS another. The difference in fertil-
yer is in ammoniated goods. AM
noniated goods are made by taking
his same acid phosphate and mix
ng it with ammoniates, blood tank
,ge, nitrate of soda, cotton seed
neal, sulphate of ammonia, garbage.
Now, SOME of these ammoniates do
heir work and exhaust more quick
y than others and 81 by properly
nixing and manipulating our am
noniates, we have gotten a fertilizer
hat will nourish the plant from the
.ime 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
.cts quickly and exhausts. Cotton
seed 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
soil before it becomes a plant food,
Just as when you plant a grain OF
corn it has to terminate before it
comes up. Tankage come in next
md then blood, which lasts until the
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crop is matured and ready togbe
gathered. So, by taking the differ
emit kinds of ammoniates in the
proper proportion, one coming in. as
one exhausts, we have a fertilizer
that will feed and nourish the plant
from the time it sprouts until it is
ready to be gathered. That is aacom-
plete fertilizer and unless it does that
it is not a complete fertilizer. 1t
does not matter where you get it, 1t
is not a complete fertilizer unless it
feeds and nourishes the plant from
the time it sprouts until the crop is
ready to be gathered. These ammo
mates are very expensive; that is
why ammoniated goods costs more
than acids. Take sulphate of ann
monia; it costs $64 per ton, laid
down at the factory. We have
bought quite a lot of this and are
using it in fertilizers that we sell for
less than $50 per ton, just because we
want to make the right kind Of
goods; goods that will make the
crop grow and keep growing and
will make a man take a pride in his
crop. Our ammoniated goods used
on lands that are prepared and cultis
waited, as the farmers in this section
usually prepare and cultivate their
lands, will get all out of the land
there is in it and a farmer should not
be satisfied with making the land do
less than that. The trouble about
using a cheap fertilizer is just this:.
by the time you find out it is no ac-
count you have lost a crop and you
have lost a years work and the only
thing you can do is to wait until
next year and try again and fertilize
right.
Every sample of Jul goods that
has been analysed at Clemson College
ran way above our analysis which
shows that we are making the right =
kind of goods. There is absolutely
no adulteration in the fertilizers we
are making. They are made of bone
phosphate of lime ammoniates and
nothing else. There is nothing bet
ter made. Our goods will feed and
nourish the plant from the time it
sprouts until it is ready to be gath
cred and that is the kind of goods
,,o,, land poo6c. tbat ic tho Kind of