The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-05-25

your cotton and corn.
We have been in correspondence
with the agricultural authorities of
Clemson College and of the states of
North Carolina and Georgia in re-
gard to side dressing and good fer
tilizer for this purpose. We have
also talked with Mr.. J. s. Fowler of
this city about it. These agricultural
college professors are fine on theoreti-
cal farming, and you know Fowler is
lightning on practical farming; that
is his long suit, that is where he
comes into his oWn-that is where he
spreads himself. All of them agree
that side dressing is the thing to do.
Then, it is the most profitable fertili-
zer you apply to your.crops. Now
when theory and practice agree on a
plan you run no risk whatever in
adopting that plan. The element OF
risk is eliminated totally. 1t disap-
pears.
BY way of parenthesis we will say
| that Mr.. Fowler is planting forty
acres in cotton, on which he expects
to make one hundred bales of cotton.
He is using Anderson fertilizer on
this exclusively, and in this he shows
Judgment.
Sometimes he uses a little of other
makes of fertilizer just to see how
much better ours is than anything he
has ever tried, but on his brag crops,
on his own farming, he uses the An
derson True Blue. ,,...
1t stands to reason that side dress
ing is a great benefit to the crop. You
don't expect to give your mule or
your horse enough food Monday
morning to last It until Saturday
night, and you: certainly don't ex-
pect to give it enough on the first OF
May to last it until frost, but that is
what you do to your cotton unless
you side dress.
Good cotton, a bale-to-the-acre cot
ton, won't board itself. Neither will
good corn; you have got to board it.
You have got to board the cotton
plant and the corn plant to get the
best results.
Side dressing keeps cotton from
shedding. The reason cotton sheds
is because it islnot supplied with suf.
hcient plant food. If you quit feed
ing your mule it will shed. If you
keep your mule in a good healthy
condition and we'll fed it will not lose
flesh. If you keep your cotton and
corn healthy-and potash will do
that-and feed it on high grade am
moniates such as we have, your cot
ton will not shed. We have a COM
plete fertilizer for side dressing which
Is strong in phosphoric acid, high in
potash, and is ammoniated with
Nitrate of Soda, fish scrap and high
grade blood. The phosphoric acid
develops the seed and seed are very
important item in cotton crops. BY
developing the seed you can Improve
them. The phosphoric acid nurtures
them and that develops them and by
using we'll developed seed every year
you can improve your seed. That is
the way you improve your chickens
and your cows; you get the best speci-
mems and raise from them. The pot
ash develops the lint, enables your
crop to stand drouth better, pre-
vents rust and blight and the other
diseases that cotton is liable to. The
ammonia gives size to the plant. This
fertilizer we are offering you now is
heavily charged with Nitrate of Soda.
This acts quickly, and then the fish
scrap and high grade blood are assim-
Hated and beco me plant food, and
feed and nourish the plant until gath