The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-06-19
for Side
Dressing

THIS is THE TIME TO SIDE-DRESS YOUR COT
i ton. Ginners will tell you that thirteen hundred
pounds of seed cotton that has been side-dressed will turn
off as heavy a bale of cotton as fifteen hundred pounds OF
seed cotton that has not been side-dressed. Two hundred
pounds of 4-Io-2 applied to an acre OF cotton as a side
dresser will increase the yield at least three pounds of seed
cotton to the acre. This three hundred pounds of seed
cotton, the way you farmers have improved your cotton,
will turn off about one hundred and twenty-five pounds OF
lint. This one hundred and twenty-five pounds of lint at
twelve cents a pound will bring you $I5-at ten cents a
pound it will bring you $I2. 50, and the two hundred pounds
of 4-1o-2 will cost you s.. 20, and two hundred pounds of
4-7-2 will cost you S.. 40. The difere ice in these figures
represents the extra profits which you will make on an acre
of cotton by side-dressing. Besides the satisfaction of
having a fine cotton crop, it helps a mans feelings, and
helps his standing in the community, and helps his credit
to a have a fine cotton crop. The time has passed in this
country when a Man can maintain his responsibility and
raise 'Bumble bee cotton"
The fertilizer you use in side-dresslng pays you better
than any fertilizer you use. 1t prevents the cottons she'd
ding. The reason cotton sheds is because it has not sufi-
cient plant food. There is only a small fraction of an
ounce of plant food gets to each cotton plant when you
fertilize in the Spring, and of this theN rains wash away
some, the grass gets some, and there Isl very little left for
the cotton plant.
Now, when your cotton plant begins to fruit, there is
an added strain on the plant, ana JUST al n time strain
is greatest on cotton plant the supply of the plant food has
diminished and is growing less. The result is the cotton
sheds its fruit. People who do not side-dress their cotton
lose from one-fourth to one-third of their crop every year
by shedding.
The farmers of Anderson County side-dressed more
last year than they ever did. You do not put enough corn
and fodder in your stalls for your mules on Monday morn
ing to last until Saturday night, and you would not think of
putting enough corn and fodder in your stall for your mules
in April to last until November, but yet that is what you
are doing with cotton. You are trying to give it enough
plant food in April to last until November. This plan will
work in making cotton, after a fashion, but you will not
get the CROPS and you will not get the clear money that you
will get if you side-dress. If you put your stock under a
heavy strain, you increase their feed. Now, when your
cotton is under an increased strain by reason of its fruiting
it will pay you handsomely to give it additional plant food.
Do not confuse this side-dresser of ours with other
side-dressing fertilizer where the ammonia is derived
solely from nitrate Of soda. This side-dresser of ours has
soda to act quickly and blood, tankage, cotton seed meal
and fish to carry Oh the work which the soda commences,
and is infinitely better for the crop.
Apply as early as you possibly can.
Full Supply of These Goods Kept at the Farmers
Oil Min and Excelsior OH Mil.
ANDERSON PHOSPHATE
& OIL COMPANY
D.S. VAKDIVER, Sec. J.R. WkDIvER, Pres