Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1912-03-20

We haven't an analysis of our S-4-4
at hand, but any one who has ever
seen the crops made where our S-4-4
Is used would not stop to ask about
! an analysis The crops speak for
themselves. 1t refreshes a mans
soil and the earth yields up her in
crease.
Buying S-4-4 is like buying an
Ames shovel, or Disston saw, or a
Rodgers knife, or a Remington type
writer, or dealing with the Farmers
and Merchants Bank at Anderson
YOU don't make any mistake. You
run no risk and take no chances, be-
cause you are getting the very best
in the respective lines.
The analysis Of fertilizer does not
mean anything until you know the
source OF ammonia in the Fertilizer
The difference in the phosphoric acid
and in the potash Of the different
manufactures Of fertilizer does not
cut much figure, because it is all
practically the same. One is about
as good as another.
The difference in fertilizer depends
upon the ammonia used. We use a
little Of nitrate Of soda to make the
crop start off nicely, and then we use
blood, tankage, fish, cotton seed meal
and sulphate OF ammonia. This
makes the best goods put in sacks
and 1t makes a goods that will anal
we we'll.
A manufacturer can get ammonia
from hoof meal, horn meal, and
leather meal, and make a fertilizer
that will analyze higher than ours,
and can make it so that it will sell
for SO ton less than we can sell
ours and make more profit per ton
than we make on ours. This may ac-
count for some Of the low prices you
hear Of. But the goods won't make
the crops that our goods will make,
for the reason that hoof meal and
horn meal and leather meal are not
available as plant food. They are not
available for tho simple reason that
they are not soluble in water. Hoof
mcHl ANA '0tn mo1' ~" leather
meal arc hOn'g ana noIna and lea
t5nr gEouo0 arCIT JUS - corn meal
IS corn ErouUi daGiy. NoH Gan take
hoo} meal ana horu meal und leather
lnaM ami put IL IN water and let r.
stay for year and go back TO it ana
the hoof meal and horn meal and
leather meal are not dissolved. They
can't possibly become plant food un-
til they do dissolve.
Now. corn and cotton are planted
and get their growth and maturity
within seven months. If hoof meal
and horn meal and leather meal can't
be dissolved in water in a year, they
can't become plant food in seven
months.
Now, frankly, we don't suppose
any fertilizer manufacturer gets his
ammonia solely from hoof meal and
horn meal and leather meal. We
don't doubt that those who use it mix
it with tankagc; for very few manu-
facturers use blood and fish. They
mix it with tankage or cotton seed
meal, but the ammonia in their
fertilizer is unavailable just to the
extent that they use this hoof, horn
and leather meal.
When you remember that only
about one-thirtieth of an ounce Of
ammonia gets to each plant you can
see that 1t will be necessary for all
Of this one-thirtieth Of an ounce to
be available.
You can make but one crop year,
and as cotton In this country is the
money crop, 1t would seem to be de-
sirable to get the best fertilizer for it,
We don't use hoof meal or horn
meal or leather meal in our factory.
We don't suppose that any fertilizer
manufacturer in creation would ad-
nit the use Of 1T If he did use it, but
YOU are at liberty, and any one else is
at liberty to visit our factory at such
time as he wishes, with or without
notice to us Of your coming, stay as
long rs you please, go through the
building, take samples of any and
everything you see and have it anal
yZcd for your own satisfaction. You
may have an analysis made on suspi-
clon at any time or anywhere you
wish We run an open shop all the
year round.
Tho law requires the fertilizer
manufacturers to put the source Of
ammoniatc used i'm his fertilizer on a
tag to be attached to each sack. The
tags on our fertilizers show that we
get the ammonia from blood, tank
age, cotton seed meal. sulphato of
ammonia and fish. The tags on most
other fertilizers give the source Of
ammonia as "Organic" and "minp-
raj Mineral sources are sulphate