The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-05-26
L Will Soon be Time to
Side Dress Your Crops.

The farmers of Anderson county
arc going to do more top dressing
this year than they have ever done.
Top dressing or side dressing has
been on the increase in this county
for the last few years and it has paid
so we'll that nearly every progressive
farmer is going to do more or less OF
it this G We hear of one man
who put in very little fertilizer last
year before planting his crop. lie
side dressed literally and made 10
bales of cotton on 60 acres of ground.
That is the kind of farming that
pays. Farming is a poor business
when you work two and three acres
to make a bale of cotton but 1t IS a
very profitable business when you
can make il bale of cotton or more to
the acre. We have about four thou
sand tons of handsome high grade
ammoniatcd goods suitable for side
dressing. 1t will take more than this
for the farmers of Anderson county if
they use it as literally as they will
find it profitable to do, and then, we
are selling this fertilizer in Abbevllle,
Greenwood, Greenville, Pickens and
Oconee counties. The farmers in
these counties do not side dress to the
extent that farmers in Anderson
county side dress, but they are COM
ing to it and will do more of it than
ever this year as they are finding out
that it is very profitable. When the
fertilizer is put in the ground before
the crop is planted or even when 1t Is
planted, the spring rains come along
before the plant terminates and takes
root, and the fertilizer goes down in
the ground 50 fast that the root of the
plant cannot catch much of it; it has
too long a lead. When you wait UNI
til the cotton comes up and is thinned
to a stand and worked out and then
side dress it with tirst-class high
grade ammoniated goods such as we
manufacture, the roots of the plant
are lust surrounded with food and
nourishment for the plant. Every
particle of the fertilizer used in the
side dressing goes to the growing
crop; that is the object of fertilizing,
you want the growing crop to get the
fertilizer. You will e the effect of
this in the growing and in the gath
ering. The man who side dresses lib
orally is the man who is going to
have the brag crop you a put that
down. 1t may be that you cannot
side dress your whole crop but you
can side dress a good part OF it and
that will enable you to see whether
it pays or not. We are manufacture
ing a specially handsome goods this
year for side dressing which we call
"Vandiver's Side Dresser" analyz-
ing S-5-6 and we recommend it to
YOU with absolute confidence. We
certainly would not put our name on
it if we did not feel that it would
prove satisfactory to all who use it.
1t is the best grade of goods that has
ever been manufactured in this cOun-
try, it analyses higher and we con-
fidently believe it will give better re-
suits than anything you have ever
tried in the way Of amm0niated fer
tilizcr. 1t is the best goods because
it is made of the best material, the
best acid phosphate, the best blood,
tankage and garbage and the most of
it to the ton. There is a great differ
ence in ammoniated goods. The am
moniates are the expensive parts of
fertilizers. That is where fertilizers
are skimped when they are skimped,
but they are not all skimped. There
are other fertilizer manufacturers
who make very good goods, but we
are not advertising them at the pres
ent writing. We are advertising our
own goods and there is nothing better
and mighty little as good. They are
all right because we put the ingre-
dients; blood, tankage, etc, in them
to make them all right. We will
have quite a lot of Nitrate of Soda
on hand too, for side dressing, and
just in passing, will say that we I'M
derstand it pays as well to side dress
corn as it does any crop you grow.
The corn contest this year promises
to be very interesting. a great many
farmers will contest for the prizes.
The man who wins will be a man
who fertilizes heavily. The corn that
wins will be a corn that has been side
dressed, and probably than
Eonce. You Will not stand the ghost
of a chance Of winning any Of the
prizes unless you fertilize heavily and
side dress also.
In the old blue-back spelling book
which we all thumbed in pursuit of
that knowledge which seems to have
eluded the most of us we find the
doctrine laid down that "the best is
the cheapest" If that doctrine APP
plies to spelling books, and we sup
pose it does, at least we are not going
to stop to contest or discuss that ques-
ton now, we are selling fertilizer
now, not spelling books; if that doc