The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1912-02-15

iumuia last spring that nSn a5
an amnloniate lasted longer than
any ammoniate used in fertili-
yer. We have always been
heay, users Of fish, but since
DR.. :Arackett told us that, we
have more than doubled the
amount. Fish is the most e1-
pensive ammoniate put in fer
tiIizer. Some manufacturers
don use it at all, and we prob
ably use more per ton than any
company il business. In the
fertilizer you mix at home, you
get only thc ammonia from cot
ten seed meal. In the mixed fer
tiliZsr you get from Us the am
monia is derived from nitrate OF
soda, sulphate Of ammonia,
high grade blood, cotton seed
meal, tankage and fish scrap.
You then have three different
kinds of ammoniates-a animal,
YES etable and mineral. These
different ammoniates last differ
ent lengths Of time in the soil.
Nitrate Of soda acts quickest
and exhausts quickest, sulphate
of ammonia comes next, blood
and cotton seed meal next, tank
axe little later because it is a
coarser grain, and fish crap last
and lasts longer than any.
As one of these exhausts, the
other comes in. So that by this
combination os ammoniates we
are making fertilizer that feeds
and nourishes the crop from the
time it sprouts, all through the
working season, all through the
laying-by season and until the
plant is matured and the crop
ready to be gathered. This is a
complete fertilizer.
Now, a fertilizer with an am
moniate that is derived from
cotton seed meal only, makes a
pretty fertilizer and does first
rate while it lasts.
The only trouble is that cotton
seed meal e1hausts and is done
with its work by the time the
cotton begins to fruit, just the
time when the plant needs more
plant food, more ammonia, the
ammoniate is exhausted and
the plant sheds il fruit. And
that cuts your crop. There was
less home mixed fertilizer used
IN 1911 than any year within
our knowledge, and it is a well
known fact that cotton shed less
in the year 1911 than any year
within our knowledge, and the
cotton crop of 1911 was the big
gest this country has ever seen.
Cotton 1ertilized with home
mixed guano always sheds like
rips in the fruiting season. And
cotton fertilized with a fertilizer
containing much fish sheds less
;han any other, and then home
mixed fertilizer is not mixed as
thoroughly and completely as
he fertilizer we make. You
could mix it as well as we do if
you were equipped as we are
md had the experienced help to
mix it, but you are not equipped
and it won't pay you to equip
% mix fertilizer for one farm.
It pays us because we mix fer
;ilizer for from 1000 to 5000
arms.
Now, to show you that home
mixed fertilizer is not mixed
thoroughly, completely and reg
llarly, take a sample Of your
home mixed from different parts
# it, and have them analyzed.
md you will find no two analY-
les alike. Your fertilizer does
lot run regular, and itcan't un-
ess it is thoroughly mixed, your
;rops will not be fertilized regu-
arlv and so they will not be reg
liar. You all know that it is
he regular crop of cotton that
urns off the best crops. In a /!
leld fertilized with your home
mixed you will have some good
nd some inferior cotton, show
az that you have some good |
nd some inferior fertilizer.
Two men were dining. One
omplained to the other that the
ther that the egg he was eating
vas certainly not sound. The |
ther insisted that parts of it |
we're splendid, and that is 7ust |
he way with home mixed fer
i!izer. In the last few years
rop contests of all sorts havei
,een frequent and popular.
We have never heard of a
nan taking the prize in a cropl
ontest who used home mixed
ertilizer. And we never have
leard of a man going into a con-
est relying on home mixed fer
ilizer. In such contests he al
Ways gets the regularly mized !
,oods from the factory, because
Ie knows it is better. Does it |
Lot stand to reason that a ferti-
yer manufacturer who is thor
ughly equipped with machin-
ry to do mixing and has thor
ughly experienced men, whose
eputations, business standings
nd salaries pepend upon their
ai1ing the goods properly, does
not stand to reason that the
oods mixed and manipulated
y them will be better than the
oods mixed and manipulated
2 the negro tenant who is Der-i