Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1912-03-27
FAvoRs Hos,E-MIxED GOODS.
Mr.. Watkins Gives Experience to
Show Favorable Points.

fertilizers at home and save from
Ave to seven dollars on each ton:
To make a ton of 9-3-3 fertilizer
requires $50 pounds Of available
phosphoric acid, 60 pounds available
ammonia, 60 pounds available pot
ash. To produce this would require
1925 pounds 16 per cent acid, cost
ing about 50; 333 pounds nitrate Of
soda, cost $7.65, and 100 pounds
muriate of potash, worth $3.50. The
ton will cost $19.17 and weigh 1878
pounds. saving freighting, hauling
and handling of 422 pounds Of worth
less fller. ton of factory mixed
fertilizer analyzing 9-3-3 Is sold for
about S26--a saving to the home
mixer of practically 81 per ton.
How to mix: Spread out 200
pounds 16 per cent acid on a floor.
or on smooth place on the ground;
spread evenly to a thickness Of about
three inches, then weigh out 60
pounds OF nitrate Of soda and spread
evenly on the acid, then 81 pounds
muria ~ of potash; then with a fork,
but better with your hands, work it
all in together. Then shovel it over
and you have it thoroughly mixed.
This Is for 9-3-3 goods.
Now, | wish here to note a part
of an article published in The Cou-
rier February 21st, and headed
"About Fertilizers"
The writer Of About Fertilizers"
says that eff you use the same mate
rial In making home-mixed fertili-
zer that we do it will cost you more
than we ask for ours. The reason
you make it cheaper is because you
use cotton seed meal only as a source
of ammonia, and that Is one of the
cheapest ammoniates used in the
manufacture of fertilizers"
Now let us figure little to see If
the writer is correct when he says
cotton seed meal produces the cheap
est ammoniate in fertilizer. Take an
S-3-3 fertilizer 1t requires
16O pounds available phosphoric
acid,
60 pounds available ammonia,
GO pounds available potash,
Or 1000 pounds acid phophate,
16 per cent; $50 pounds cotton seed
meal; 100 pounds muriate of pot
ash.
TO produce 60 pounds available
ammonia with cotton seed meal it
would require $50 pounds, at a cost
of $11.05 at $1.30 per hundred. To
produce the same with nitrate of
soda would require 333 pounds at a
cost of $7.G5, soda at SAG per ton
difference of $3.4O in favor Of the
soda. But we will deduct here S1.4O
for the acid and potash that Is in the
500 pounds of cotton seed meal, and
1t still leaves nitrate Of soda the
cheapest nitrate by 50 on the ton.
Now, If we were to make a ton of
S-3-3 and use cotton seed meal and
&ainH it would run like this: 1000
pounds acid phosphte, $50 pounds
cotton seed meal, 500 pounds kainit.
Total 1880 pounds to make a ton.
The writer Of about Fertilizers"
says that there was less home
mixed fertilizer used in the spring of
l9l1 than in any year within our
knowledge, and it is well known
1act that cotton shed less in the year
1911 than any year within our knowl-
edge"
Now, the farmers all know that in
the early part Of the season in 1911
we had the driest weather we most
ever had, and consequently the roots
or the crops following the moisture,
went down deep into the ground, and
the rains later on kept the plants
healthy and growing all the time,
and there could not be any dwindling
or whitening OF the plant to cause it
to drop it's fruit. 1t was the seasons
Of 1911, and not the kind Of ferti-
lizer used, that prevented the she'd
ding Of the cotton fruit.
The writer Of "About FertiliZers''
cites you to a man like J. s. Fowler.
OF Anderson, to prove to you that
home-miSing of fertilizers does not
pay don't know whether it was
home-miXcd goods that Judge Fow-
ler used on his fine four-acre brag
corn patch or not. It Is not reported
that 1T shed its fruit (probably there
was none to shed), but 1t came very
near shedding It's leaves or blades.
Now, my friends, you can't mix
fertilizer for everybody the way l
have laid down for you to mix. but