The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1912-02-08

/; WHOSE reputation, business
standing and salary depend on
his doing it properly, than the
one who makes it a few day in
the spring of the year?
Now, if the home mixer u.es
the same material that we doIiti
will cost him more than we ask
for the same analysis and it will
not be mixed as regularly, thor
oughly and completely as our
goods. Last spring cotton was
high, and the farmer felt that
he could use the best grade of
fertilizer, so he dio no home
mixiug. Now, if it pays to use
the best fertilizer when cotton
is high, it pays still better when
cotton is at its present price, be-
lcause when cotton is cheap it
must be made cheap to afford a
profit.
You can make more cotton to
the acre with ready mixed goods
than with home mixed goods
and the more you make to the
acre the cheaper you make it.
Now, you may get up a home
mixed 8.3.3.. or what you think
is 8.3.3., for 50 a ton less than
our pric,. Of this ton of guano
you use 400 pounds to the acre
as most of you do-you ought.
to use 800. Using 400 pounds
to the acre, a ton will cover five
acres. Now that is reducing
the cost of your guano 40cts. an
acre. You can tell. riding along
the road, the difference in crops
fertilized with mixed goods. and
those with ready mixed goods.
Good farmers say there must be
at least 800 pounds of seed cot
ton difference in the crop before
it can be noticed riding by. A
difference of 300 pounds of seed
cotton will make a difference of
100 pounds of lint cotton. This
extra 100 pounds Of lint cotton
will bring you at present prices
between IS and $40, amp this 50
OF $40 is made at an expense Of
40 cents. By withholding this
40c to the acre you decrease
your income 50 or $40.
Now, we leave it to you, is
that good business and good
farming? The money paid out
by the farmer for fertilizer is
TIE best investment he can pos
sib,,v make. It is the cheapest
and>only labor you can depend
on putting i'll "a hours a day.
It gets in its work Sundays,
holidays, rainy days and Satur-
days of 7 days ina week, from
plating to gathering
If you use the same aterial
in making home mixed feassillz-
er, it will cost you more thai
we ask for ours. The reasons
you make it cheaper is because
we use cotton seed meal only as
a source of ammonia, and that:
is one of the cheapest ammon-
iates used in a manufactured
fertilizer, and it gives out just
when it is most needed.
Now, confdentially, you let
the other fellow use the home
mixed, and you buy your ferti-
lizer from the Anderson Fertili-
zer Co., and make crops. Let
the crowd use any fertilizer they
wish, and you use the best you
can get. for the best is the cheap
est. If you follow the crowd
you will be as poor as the crowd
If there is one thing the mixer
should know, as an aged wash
observed in mixing
her bluing, it is mixing guano.
A man who gives his time and
thought to it ought certainly to-
know more about it than the
negro tenant who mixes a few
tons in the spring of the year.
Now if you wal to Ii; ke crops. get
the best fertilizer. When they are all
about the same price get the best-,hs
Anders on fertilizer. Potash is :. very
necessary iugredien. IN making fert lizer
In 2OOlb sack of home mixed you have
about peck of kainit and nutriate OF
potash together, and it will be = .mpossi-
BILE to mix this thoroughly. When you
get our goods GU get 200lbs and more
every sack, 2,c00lbs to every ton. Sui
ohate of ammonia viii cost you S66.56
= ton, spot cash on delivery. None Of
his is used in home mixed goods. We
Use quite a lot of it in making goods we
;eil for less than $50 a ton. to maintain
our record of making the best goods put
n sacks.
Fertilizer ammoniated with nitrate of
soda, sulphate of ammonia, high grade
blood. high grade tankage, cotton seed
neal and fish scrap is much better good
md will make much better crops than
fertilizer ammoniated with cotton seed
neal only.
You have been charging your fertiliz-
,r bill to your cotton crop. when IS
matter Of fact you have been using it
lnder your corn, peas, turnips and:evei-
thing else you have planted. You have
name good crops Of these where you
would have made very little without it.
md charged all the expense to cotton.
Mr.. I. W. NcCarley tells US that 1-G
{ his cotton viii pay for tie .uano used
nder his cotton.
Mr, J S. Fowler says a farmer r,akes
mistake in trying 10 mix his own fer
llzcr.
Mixing fertilizer ct home is a pr, tty
heory kut it W. MT work. Perpetual
notion is pre-; theor. but it never