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

comidg up on the train from Co.
lumbia Last spring that fish as
an ammoniate lasted longer than
any ammoniate used in fertili-
zer. We have always been
hea1i; users Of fish, but since
DR.. Arackett told US that, We
have more than doubled the
amount. Fish is the most ex-
pensive ammoniate put in fer
tilizer. Some manufacturers
don't use it at all, and we prob
ably use more per ton than any
company in business. In the
fertilizer you mix at home, you
get only the ammonia from cot
ten seed meal. In the mixed fer
tilizer you get from US the am
monia is derived from nitrate of
soda, sulphate of ammonia,
high grade blood, cotton seed
meal, tankage and fish scrap.
You then have three different
kinds Of ammoniates-animal,
ve- etable and mineral. These
different ammoniates last differ
ent lengths of time in the soil.
Nitrate of soda acts quickest
and exhausts quickest, sulphate
of ammonia comes next, blood
and cotton seed meal next, tank
axe a little later because it is a
coarser grain, and fish scrap last
and lasts longer than any.
AS one of these eAhausts, the
other comes in. So that by this
combination os ammoniates we
are making fertilizer that feeds
and nourishes the crop from the
time it sprouts, all through the
working season, all through the
laying-by season and until the
plant is matured and the crop
ready to be gathered. This is a
complete fertilizer.
Now, a fertilizer with an am
moniate that is derived from
cotton seed meal only, makes a
pretty fertilizer and does first
rate while it lasts.
The only trouble is that cotton
seed meal exhausts and is done
with it's work by the tine the
cotton begins to fruit, just the
time when the plant needs more
plant food, more ammonia, the
ammoniate is exhausted and
the plant sheds il fruit. And
that cuts your crop. There was
less home mixed fertilizer used
in 1911 than any year within
our knowledge. and it is a well
known fact that cotton shed less
in the year 1911 than any year
within our knowledge, and the
cotton crop of 1911 was the big
gest this country has ever seen.
Cotton 1ertilized with home
mixed guano always sheds like
rips in the fruiting season. And
cotton fertilized with a fertilizer
containing much fish sheds less
than any other, and then home
mixed fertilizer is not mixed as
thoroughly and completely as
tie fertilizer We make. You
could mix it as we'll as We do if
you were equipped as we are
and had the experienced help to
MIX it, but you are not equipped
and it won't pay you to equip
to mix fertilizer for one farm.
It pays US because we mix fer
tilizer for from 1000 to $1,000
farms.
Now, to show you that home
mixed fertilizer is not mixed
thoroughly, completely and reg
ularly, take a sample of your
home mixed from different parts
Of it, and have them analyzed.
and you will find no two analy-
se5 alike. Your fertilizer does
not run regular, and it can't un-
less it is thoroughly mixed, your
crops will not be fertilized regu-
larlv and so they will not be reg
ular. You all know that it is
the regular crop of cotton that
turns Off the best crops. In a
field fertilized with Your home
mixed you will have some good
and some inferior cotton, show
ing that you have some good
and some inferior fertilizer.
Two men were dining. One
complained to the other that the
other that the egg he was eating
was certainly not sound. The
other insisted that parts of it
were splendid, and that is ?ust
the way with home mixed fer
tilizer. In the last few years
crop contests of all sorts have
been frequent and popular.
We have never heard of a
man taking the prize in a crop
contest who used home mixed
fertilizer. And we never have
heard of a man going into a con-
test relying on home mixed fer
tilizer. In such contests he al
ways gets the regularly mized
goods from the factory, because
he knows it is better. Does it
not stand to reason that a ferti-
lizer manufacturer who is thor
oughly equipped with machin-
cry to do mixing and has thor
oughly experienced men, whose
regulations, business standings
and salaries pepecd upon their
the goods properly, does
it not stand t. reason that the
goods mixed and manipulated t
by them will be better than the |
goods mixed and manipulated
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