The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-06-12
Side Dress as Early
as Possible


NAI e AXE GElllNG Jul a 4-lO-Z GOANo, FOON
w per cent. %Phosphoric Acid, ten per cent. of am
monia and two per cent. of potash. Also a 4-7-2 guano;
four per cent. of ~phosphoric ac;d, seven per cent. of am
monia, and two per cent. Of potash. These are specials
for side dressing and we have taken great pains to get them
up so as to give the best possible results. This fertilizer is
heavily charged with nitrate Of soda, to be available as
food for the young plant as quickly as possible. Then we
use with this nitrate of soda a combination of high grade
fish and blood to come in as the nitrate of soda gives out,
to back up the work started by the nitrate OF soda, and
to make it fruit on up to the top and mature as much of
the fruit as possible.
We think this Fertilizer ammoniated with soda, fish
and blood is a better side-dresser and is better for the soil
than soda by itself. A heavy dose of soda on land leaves
the soil in an exhausted and thirsty condition. Soda by
itself has the effect on a crop of a good soaking season fol-
lowed by dry weather. This special preparation we are
getting up for side-dressing being ammoniated with soda
and fish and blood has the effect Of a good soaking season
followed by showers until frost. That is all a man wants
on a crop-a good soaking season followed by showers.
We bought more fish this year than we have used, as
there was less ammonated goods sold this year than usual.
So we have a surplus Of fish on hand to use in this side
dressing. The fish may clog up your distributor every now
and then, but you will lose no time in stopping to clean it
out, because you will make better crops by your fertilizer
having fish in it.
You don't lose any time by stopping during the work
ing season Of a crop to have your plows %sharpened, be-
cause YOU can do so much better work after you get them
back from the shop.
1t is Just the same way with this fish business. Clean
ing fish bones out c. your guano distributor is time we'll
spent because it guarantees fish in Your fertilizer, and that
mighty nearly guarantees a good crop. Apply this side
dressing early and often. One of the best if not the best
farmers in the state fertilizes his crop every time he culti-
,,+ec II Tn 1910 he made S1 pounds of lint cotton to
the acre. We don't know what he made last year.
ANY ginner who has ever kept tab on it will tell you
that I, 200 pounds of seed cotton that has been side-dressed
will turn out as heavy bale Of cotton as I, 500 pounds of
seed cotton that has not been side-dressed. We were told
that last Fall by a ginner and we took up the matter with
other einners and every man of them who investigated it
agreed to it. The side dressing develops the lint and makes
more of it. This excess of lint on the seed will more than
pay for the fertilizer.
This promises to be a good year to make all the cot
ton, cotton seed, corn, forage and every other crops posi-
Bile, as indications are now that all these will be in demand
at good prices, for it looks now as if there isn't going to be
any bumper" crops of any kind this year, and we natural
ly expect good prices and you all know how fast a crop
"counts up" when you get good prices.
This seems to be the time of all times to side dress
with an open hand and make every pound of crop posi-
Bile, when all products will be needed at prices that will
mean money to the producers.
Think this over. II you don't think heavy s~ide-dress-
ing pays, why of course we wouldn't use any. In fact, if
didn't think fertilizer paid, wouldn't use any at all. But
if YOU decide it will not only pay for itself and make you
several times its cost in clear profit, then you will need no
argument as to what to do about making this application.
Our advice is to apply some good fertilizer literally
and lust as early as possible. Don't wait too long to aP-
ply it if you expect the best results, especially on cotton.
Now remember, our 4-Io-2 and our 47-2 are in a
class to themselves when it comes to slde-dresslng.
We recommend them to you with our old reliable S-4-4
goods and know if you will use them literally they will pay
YOU a profit of several times their cost, to say nothing OF
making a crop you will be proud of and build up instead
Of exhaust your land; an item in itself worth more to you
than the cost of the goods. From every standpoint 1t Will
paw YOU to side-dress literally and if you do you can t ma
ANYTHING to use in the class with our goods.
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