The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1912-02-15
About FertiliZer $

and don't you think the one
who makes bread every day in
the year, year after year, and
Iwhose reputation, business
|standing and salary depend on
his doing it properly, than the
lone who makes it a few day in
the spring of the year2
Now, if the home mixer u:es
1.-The same material that We do, it
will cost him more than We ask
|for the same analysis and it will
Inot be mixed as regular j;
|oughlv and completel
lgoods. Last spring Gu II
thigh, and the farmer
Ihe could use the best graPare-
fertilizer, so be dio no holhe
Imi1iug. Now, if it pays to use
the best fertilizer when cotton
lis high, it pays still better when
icotton is at it's present price, be-
icause when cotton is cheap it
fmust be made cheap to afford a
profit.
You can make more cotton to
the acre with ready mixed goods
than with home mixed goods
land the more you make to the
acre the cheaper you make it.
INow, you may get ap a home
linked 8.3.3.. or what you think
lis 9.3.3., for 50 a ton less than
Jour pric,,. Of this ton of guano
|you use 400 pounds to the acre
las most Of you do-you ought
to use 800. Using 400 pounds
Ito the acre, 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 800 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 So and so, amp this 50
or $40 is made at an expense of
40 cents. By Withholding this
4Oc to the acre you decrease
your income SO or $40.
Now, we leave it to you, is
that good business and good
farminga The money paid out
by the farmer for fertilizer is
the best investment he can pos
sibly make. It is the cheapest
and only labor you can depend
on putting in "a hours day.
1t gets in its work Sundays,
holidays, rainy days and Satur-
days Of Z days in a week, from
plating to gathering time.
If you use the same material
in making home mixed fertiliz-
er, it will cost you more than
we ask for ours. The reason
you make it cheaper is because
we use cotton seed meal only as
a source of ammonia, and that
lis 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 thev
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
erwomon 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 wait to make crops. get
the best fertilizer. When they are all
abous the saro price ass tho bess-ths
Anders on fertilizer. Potash is very
necessary ingredient in making fert liz.r
In a 20olb sack Of home mixed you have
about peck Of kainis and nutriate of
potash together, and it will be 1lmpossi-
bic to mix this thoroughly. When you
get our goods GU get 200lbs and more
every sack, s,c0olbs 70 every ton. Sui
phate Of ammoois will cost you $os.5S
a ton, spot cash on delivery. Memo Of
this is used in home mixed goods. We
use quito lot Of it in making goods We
sell for less than $50 ton. 10 maintain
our record Of making the best goods put
In sacks.
Fertilizer amnoniated with nisraso of
soda, sulphase Of ammonia, high grade
blood. high grade sankage, cotton eeed
meal and fish scrap is much better good
and will make much better crops than
annoniated with cotton seed
meal only.
You have been charging Jour fertiliz-
er bill to your cotton crop, wheo As a
ma:tev of fact you have heen using it
undor yosr corn, peas, surnips aad,evel.
ything else you have planted. You have
name good crops Of these where you
would have made very little wi.hou. it.
and charged all the expense to cotton.
Mr.. 7. w. AsCarley tells US shas is
of his ce.son will pay for tie su.no used
under his cotton.
Dir. J $. Fowler says farmer makes -
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