St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-09-30
TELLS STORY Of GREAT
Fertilizer CORPORATION
Purposes, Organization and Properties of
International Concern Set Forth
For Information of Public.

possession of the Sallstedt mine mas
proved to be a most profitable invest
ment. The direct and Indirect ad-
vartages of this Independent invest
ment in the potash industry have
been maintained throughout the
shifting phases of the potash con,
troversy," in which the international
has sought to protect the interests
Of the American market as a whole,
as well as to conserve its own inter-
ests.
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 pro-
duced abroad and imported to the
United States Other forms are pro-
duced in this country-cotton-see
meal, dried fish scrap, and the by
products of slaughter houses-dr1ed
blood, animal tankage, ETC., etc. The
corporation either owns outright or
has close working arrangement with
companies producing these materials,
SO as to be positively assured OF its
supply for future years, and by rea-
son of the size of it's purchases or
other ingredients not produced by
it's interests is thus placed in the
most advantageous position.
POSITION AS A MANUFACTURERS.
In this regard the position OF the
International Agricultural Corpora
ton is unique Instead of purchas-
ing the plants of competitors, as has
been the custom of other large cor
porations in this industry, the Inter-
national has caused to be built at
the most advantageous points
throughout the South, moderate sized
factories with sufficient capacity to
serve the trade located in that parti-
cular territory on minimum freight
rate for the manufactured product.
Securing it's sulphuric 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 manufacture
ing at that point, while competitors
owning expensive sulphuric acid
works must run to capacity, frequent
ly much in excess of actual need for
tho sulphuric acid SO produced.
Broadly speaking, the most i'm
portant product of the International
Agricultural Corporation is what is
known as acid phosphate. This ma
terial is produced by grinding phos-
plate rock to a powder and adding
approximately an equal amount of
SO degrees sulphuric acid The re-
sultant material, dry friable slate
colored product (acid phosphate), is
used by all fertilizer manufacturers,
and aside from the larger manufac-
turers, the southern states contain
hundreds of smaller producers-the
"dry mixers That the plan of the
International Agricultural Corpora
ton is sound is proven by the fact
that not only are the small manu-
facturers ready customers, but every
large producer Chose owning and
running their own sulphuric acid
works. have, during the last year,
bought very heavily of the Interna-
tional Agricultural Corporation s
production of acid phosphate.
FACILITIES FOR DISTRIBUTION.
The period of construction for the
International Agricultural Corpora
ton has not, as yet, been passed
One factory is still in process of
building and one more just starting,
but all will be in operation by Nov
/, 1911. The position of the Inter-
national Agricultural Corporation is
such that by means of factories it
owns outright, or through factories
where its raw material is used and
it's manufactured product is controll-
eel for sale, the corporation can offer
it's products at eight points in
Georgia, four in South Carolina, at
three Alabama centers, and in Ten
nessee, Mississippi, North Carolina,
Pennsylvania, New York and Ohio.
Twenty calculating works give to
the International Agricultural Cor
poration the broadest possible base
of operations and capacity for
manufacture fully sufficient to care
for the supply of sulphuric acid which
it is under contract to receive Its
production of acid phosphate will ex-
coed 100000 tons per annum.
EDUCATIONAL EFFORT.
1t is intended to extend the labora-
tory, scientific and educational work
of the corporation so as to include
soil and crop investigation. This is
with view to improving methods of
fertilization and spreading the knowl-
edge of it's posi- Utilities. By expert
ment, demonstration on a large scale
of the use of fertilizers, and by the
discrimination of sound information,
the corporation aims to be an educa-
ticnal force, cooperating with other
agencies in the development of the
science of fertilization; to keep up
with the progress of science, and to
spread its teachings. Although great
advances have been made in fertiiza-
ton, much more remains to be done
in the line of education work
Throughout the American agricultural
world This line of endeavor cannot
fail to benefit, not only the farmer
but the whole nation, by making
possible larger food supply at a
lower cost of production.
The annaul consumption of COM
mercial fertilizers is increasing at
the rate of 100000 tons annually,
reaching a reported total of $685.
341 tons in 1910-1911, valued rough
ly at 1926, 100000.
GROWTH OF THE INDUSTRY.
The past rate of increase is, how
ever, no measure of future increase,
for the reason that education in the
proper utilization and value of fer
til:zers is proceeding more rapidly
than ever before, and for the further
reason that artificial fertilization,
regarded as a necessary
only on worn-out soils, is now known
to be profitable investment under
nearly all circumstances. Whatever
the crop may be, if a dollar invested
in fertilizer will produce FIVE dollars
in the form of enhanced production,