Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1912-02-07

cotton was high and the farmer felt
like he could use the best grade of
fertilizer, so he did no home-miXing.
He got his goods already mixed be-
cause he knew they were better. Now
If 1t pays to use the best fertilizer
when cotton is high, it pays still bet
ter when cotton is at its present price,
because when coffin is cheap 1t must
be made cheaper to get 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
home-mixed 1873, or what you
think is 1913, for 81 a ton less than
we sell 1t to you for. OF this ton OF
guano you use 400 pounds to the
acre-aS most Of you do-you ought
to use 500, but most Of you use 400.
Using 400 pounds to the acre ton
VIII cover five acres. Now that is
reducing the cost Of your fertilizer
40 cents an acre. You can tell the diff
ference in crops fertiliZed with some
mixed goods and crops fertilZed with
ready-miXed goods riding along the
road. Good farmers who are close
observers say there must be at least
800 pounds Of seed cotton difference
~ lhS Siop oSiolc lnc NlnGleuCe can
be- noticed riding by. Now this diff
ference Of 800 pounds Of seed cotton
Will make more than 100 pounds Of
lint cotton. This 100 pounds of extra
lint cotton that you make by using
ready mixed goods will bring you at
present prices between 50 and $40.
and this 50 or $40 is made at an en-
pense OF forty cents. BY withholding
this 40 cents to the acre you decrease
yourincome from an acre Of land be-
tween 50 and $40.
Now we leave it to you If that is
good business and good farming. The
money you pay out for fertilizer is
the best investment you can make on
farm. 1t is the cheapest labor you
employ. 1t is the only labor you can
depend on putting in "a hours a day,
seven days in the week, during the
whole crop period.
1t gets In its work Sundays, holi-
days, rainy days and Saturdays of "a
hours day, seven days in the week.
from the time you plant your CROP
until you gather it.
III you use the same material in
making homemixed fertilizer that
we do, 1T will cost you more than we
ask for ours. The reasons you make
1t cheaper Is because you use cotton
seed meal only as a source of am
monia and that is one Of the cheaDest
ammoniates used In a manufactured
fertilizer, and 1t gives out just when
1T is most needed.
Now, Confidentially, you let the
other fellow use his little home-mix-
ed goods and you buy your fertilizer
from the Anderson Fertilizer Com
pany, and make crops. Let the crowd
use any fertilizer they want to. ana
You use the best you can get, because
The best is the cheapest (f YOU fol-
low the crowd YOU will be as poa4stas
tho crowd, If there Is one thiripithat
tho Fertilizer mixer ouYh to know
as an aged woman (washwoman) OBJ
served Of her bluing, 1t Is mixing a
Fertilizer. A man who gives his
time and his thought to it certainly
knows more about it than the col
orcd brother knows who mixes a few
tons every few years in the spring Of
the year.
Now, If you want to make crous
and that is what this country dcpends
on, get the best fertilizer. When
they are all about the same price get
the best--get the Anderson Fcrtili-
Zcr. Potash is a very necessary in
gredicnt In making fertilizer. In
2o0-pound sack Of your home-mixcd
goods YOU have about peck OF kai-
nit and muriate of potash together
and 1t will be impossible for Won to
get this mixed thoroughly. And even
If you mix 1T thoroughly your home
mixed won't be as good as ours, be-
cause you don't use the material TO
make 1t as good. When you get our
goods you get 200 pounds and more
to every sack. When a man buys
iertlnZer from .us he gets 1000
pounds to the ton. Sulphate of am.
monia will cost you $66.5O q ton.
spot cash on delivery. There is none
Of this used in the home mixed
goods. We use quite a lot of It In
making goods which we sell for less
than $50 ton, just to maintain our
reputation Of making the best goods
put in sacks. e'
Fertilizer ammoniatcd with nitrate
OF soda, sulphate of ammonia. high
grade blood, high-grade tankage, cot
ton seed meal and fish scrap Is n great
deal better goods and will make
great deal better crops than a fertili-
zer ammoniated with cotton seed
meal only.
You have been charging your en-
IRE Dill for fertilizer to your cotton
crop, when as matter of fact Won
nave used this fertilizer under corn.
peas, cane. turnips. and everything
else you have planted. You have
made good crops Of these where you
have planted You have made good
crops Of these where you would have
made very little without 1t, and have
charged the whole expense to the
cotton crop.
T. w. McCarley tells us that ono
sixth OF his cotton crop will pay for
the fertilizer used under his cotton
j. S. Fowler says a farmer makes