The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-09-09
yTURY UF GREAT
FERTILIZER CORPORATION
Purposes, Organization an Properties OF
international Concern Set Forth A..
for Information of Public.

purchase of Sollstedt
we're to some extent minimized by the I
action of the German government,
aimed to deprive Sollstedt's Americana
customers of the benefits of increased
production and much lower prices
than the Potash Syndicate maintained
But under all circumstances the pos
session of the Sollstedt mine has prov
ed to be a most profitable investment.
The direct and indirect advantages OF
this independent investment in the pot
ash industry have been maintained
throughout the shifting phases OF the
potash controversy" in which the
interests of the American market as
a whole, as well as to conserve its own
interests.
BY. the term ammoniates is meant
all those materials from which nitro
gen is derived in the form most avail
able for plant food. Many of these
materials, such as nitrate Of soda and
sulphate of ammonia, are produced
abroad and imported to the United
States. other forms are produced in
this country-cotton-se meal, dried
fish scrap, and the by-products OF
slaughter houses-dried blood, animal
tankage, etc., etc. The Corporation
either owns outright or has close
working arrangements with compan-
les producing these materials, so as
to be positively assured of its supply
for future years, and by reason of the
size of its purchases or other ingredi
ents not produced by its interests is
thus placed in the most advantageous
position.
Position as Manufacturer.
In this regard the pce.t.cn of the
International Agricultural Corporation
ia unique. Instead of purchasing the
plants of competitors, as has been the
custom of other large corporations IN
this industry, the international has
caused to be built at the most adj
vantageous points throughout the
South. moderate sized factories, with
sufficient capacity to serve the trade
located in that particular territory on
a minimum freight rate for the manu-
featured product. Securing its sui
phuric acid from a central producing
point, it is able to transport to any
other given point only such amount
of sulphuric acid as may be required
for manufacturing at that point, while
competitors owning expensive sulphur
ic acid works must run to capacity
frequently much in excess of actual
need for the sulphuric acid so pro
! duced.
, Broadly speaking, the most import
: ant product of the International Agrl
: cultural Corporation is what is know
v az acid phosphate. This material Il
: produced by grinding phosphate rocl
+ to a powder and adding approximate,
S an equal amount of so degrees sui
], phuric acid. The resultant material
n a dry friable slate-colored produc
q (acid phosphate), is used by all fert
l. lizer manufacturers, and aside fror
s the larger manufacturers, the soutl
IL ern states contain hundreds of smalle
'. producers-the "dry mixers" Thf
j. the plan of the International Agricu
o. tural Corporation is sound Is prove
n by the fact that not only are the sma
D. manufacturers ready customers, b'
Id every large producer Chose ownir
err and running their own sulphuric &C
n. works) have, during the last yea
IL bought very heavily of the Intern
ed tional Agricultural Corporations pr
90 duction of acid phosphate.
Facilities for Distribution.
in The period of construction for Il
id International Agricultural Corporate
of has not, as yet, been passed. One "a
an tory Is still in process of building a.
one more just starting, but all will
;or in oneration by November list, 10
The position of the international Ae
o | cultural NOTpOIdtlon 10 ouCH '"''
or means Of factories 1t owns outrig
to or through factories where, its r.
the material is used and its manufactul
lsh product is controlled for sale, the c
ew- poration can offer its products at ell
ted points in Georgia, four in South Ca
ich lima. at three Alabama centers, and
rty Tennessee, Mississippi, North ca
49,. lima, Pennsylvania, New York
ich Ohio.
tcD Twenty calculating works give
Co., the international Agricultural Corr
uld alton the broadcast positive base
isis operations and capacity for ma
900 facture fully sufficient TO care for
ket supply of sulphuric acid which II
A.