Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1911-11-22
AoME.MIXe0 FERTILIZERS,
How To Get fult Value for Your Fertilizer
Money,

hVN I0 bsI fult vdlae TOT Y0ur feftiilze
| Money.
Home.mixing has come to stay,
and means q larger use of high
grade fertilizers. and it would be
the part of wisdom for the deal.
ers in fertilizers TO give the full
est opportunity to farmers to buy
the materials. It would mean
larger sales for them rather than
any cutting of in demand. 1t is
a very short.slghted policy that
makes the fertilizer dealers throw
hindrances in the way of farmers
getting the materials for home
mixing. Sometimes, too, they
seem to forget that real farm
paper is more interested in help
ing the farmers to the best meth
ods than IN selling any special
brands of fertilizers. We have
consistently advised the farmers
against she purchase of low.grade
fertilizers, and have explained to
them that low price does not
mean cheapness in these articles.
We do not blame the manufaotu-
rers for making the 2-s-2 goods,
for they are simply compelled to
meet the demand for low priced
goods, and are compelled to sell
an article that is :one-fourth
worthless filler It would he bot.
ter for manufacturers and farm
ers, too, if only the higher grades
we're sold, or that farmers would
farm SO shat they would not need
to buy complete fertilizer at ell
but would invest as much, or
more, money in q more liberal
use Of what they need to buy.
The men today who are farming
best are the men who PRACTICE a
good rotation of crops and in
stead of little 200 pounds of
dressing Of low grade fertilizer,
are using three times as much of
the mineral elements that their
legume crops especially need.
And these men find that 90 they
increase the organic matter in
their soil it pays them to use
phcsphoric acid and, in some con.
ditions, potash more literally
than they have ever done,
There is profit to the farmer in
judicious use of commercial
fertilizers, and the better q man
farms tie more liberal purchaser
he becomes of the fertilizing ma
terials that he finds his sell
leeds. And the farmers are rap
idly finding out what they ne:d
and what they do not need to buy.
and the manufacturers who are
wise will soon find that it is to.
their interest to sell farmers what
they want and let them use it in
such proportions - soil and crops
demand, When we find in the
reports of the stations hundreds
of brands offered as specials"
for this, that or the other crop,
and note that every one of these
"specials" is the same thing it is
evidently time for the farmer to
dc his own mixing and try to
make his "spscials" fit his crors
aud his lands.
We believe in the more liberal
use of such ferti'izing mater a Is
that he tiuds his soil needs. Ard
the farmers are rapidly fiuding
out what they need and what
they do not need to buy, and the
manufacturers who are wise will
soon find that it is to their
interest to sell farmers what they
want and let them use it in such
proportions as soil and crops de-
mand. When We find in She re-.
p rts of the stations hundreds of
brands offered as specials" for
this, that or the other crop, and
note that every one of these
''speoials" is the ssmsthing it ia
! evidently time for the farmer to Dc
his own mixing and try to make
his "speclaIs" fit his crops al
his land.
We believe in the moro liberal
use of such fertilizin, materials
ss the farmer needs. We know
that spplicstlous far heavier than
are comme My used vii! pay bet
ter than the little dribble of q
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