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cover from this before it can take on its natural growth, and 1T never does
a. we'll a it would if it had not suffered these troubles Side dressing, BY
supplying plant food, makes this pland vigorous and healthy and strong
and it grows off from the start If you break your arm and setit and get
it, properly set and properly knitted together it is never al strong as before
it was broken. "A bird with a broken wing never soars 80 high again
And til with your cotton. Early attention and early fertilizer is more
than half of the battle There is no question of side dressing paying. You
notice what top dressing did for grain this spring: as soon as the top dress
ms was administered, the grain came out of the kinks and if you admins.
ter side dressing to your cotton, it will come out Of the kinks. The pre-
paTaton fol a crop has been unusually fine this spring, and where the pre-
paraion is fine the farming is good and side dressing is bound to pay.4&z
Some farmers have found side dressing Improbable; that is because it
was applied too late; fit should be applied early, as soon as you bring your
cotton to a stand, because you do not care tx side dresc cotton that you are
going to cut out; and ass soon IS you get the grass out of your cotton, be-
cause you do not care to side dress grass; grass takes care Of itself in q crop
iflet alone. AS soon as this is done, then the side dressing should be- ap
piled and you are not going to apply too much oft Up o few years ago
France used more fertilizer than the whole United States of America and
they did not use it all at once, either. The French farmers make very fine
crops ='.'@ 49,
In a few years people will wonder why we use SO little fertilizer now
in making crops. Joel Keys told the writer of a MI. Rogers down in Flor
ence county who side dressed his cotton every time he cultivated it, and
when he wound up cultyatng his crop, he had used about IsoO pounds OF
ferterizer to the acre; and when he wound up gathering his crop he had
gathered $50 pounds of lint cotton to the acre; not seed cotton-int cotton,
two bales weighing 44O pounds each to the acre. Now, if this is not profit
able, the most of us had better quit farming. 1
Side dressing your cotton prevents disease to which cotton is liable be-
cause it is stronger an better able to Withstand these troubles 1t is strong
or because tits better fed. a well fed pig o a well fed child can resist
disease better than a little stunted child or pig
Then, when a mans cotton crop grows off well. when it is green and
greasy and growing, it makes him feel better; it encourages hm to work it
better and he will have a better crop. Then too a man feels his oats q
little more with a good crop than he does otherwise; it gives him better
credit and it gives him better standing in his community having a good
crop of green, greasy and growing cotton. than having a little yellow, rusty,
stunted humble bee cotton The time is past when a man can maintain
his respectabIity and grow humble bee cotton. Some people complain that
they cannot get their hands to side dress crops but Mr. Rogers had no
trouble Of that sort He is like the centurion spoken O fl n the Good Book;
when he tells man to dc q thing he does it. @ -t I
If you apply all your fertilizer when you plant your cotton the spring
rains get a part Of it,; the grass gets a part the cotton that you cut out in
reducing your crop to q stand has taken a part sc your remaining crop gets
probably not more than half ofwhat you put down. t#ES
Now, suppose you use 400 pounds to the acre of 1922 goods. You will
save 1923 ounces of ammonia; half Of this has been taken up by the rains, the
the grass and cotton you have taken out, % you would have about "a ounces
of ammonia and you have 4.7Oo cotton stalks to fertilizer with this "a
ounces of ammonia The wonder is that SO little fertilizer will make such
adherence IN the crop You can see ms lHerence oy comparing d nea
fertizerd with a field of cotton that is not ferdlze You will come to the
conclusion that fertilizer men are giving you good goods or 80 little would
not make such a difference. >'"f 49, IT,
As your cotton grows your fertilizer is absorbed and used up and along
in July and August your cotton is putting on its fruit, and when this going
on the strain on the cotton plants greatest. Now, just at the time when
the strain is greatest the supply of plant food, which is already reduced, is
weakening, so just as the strain is increasing by the additional fruit that
the stalk takes on, just at the time when your plant ID bungerlng and tnlrst
ing for plant food, for sustenance, Or you might say for vithes as the
heart panteh after the water brook, the supply is reduced and is decreasing
and vonr crop sheds What else can it doY When your farm work is
heaviest on the mules you increase the food and then they do not hold their
own; suppose you did not increase their food when you increased their
work; wouldn't you expect them to shed too? $& .2M
In every contest; for corn or cotton that has been entered into for years
past, the ne who got the prize side dressed his crop and more than once
Therei no accident about this; it is a consequence. A man does not stand
a ghost of a chance of getting the prize in a crop contest who does not side
dress. .>'' M..s -aE=.&#
In 1911 this county made the biggest cotton crop it has ever grown and
there was nore side dressing used than ever. That was not accident either;
it was another consequence. You do not expect to give your mule enough
corn and oats Monday morning to last it until Saturday night and you have
no notion of giving it. enough corn and waterin April to last it until octo-
Der. but that is what you do when you fertlize your cotton lin April and x
pect it to feed a crop until it natures in October
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making a profit, and he only makes one cotton crop a year. That being
the case it will pay him to nurse his crop, feed it, look after it. 1t has
been estamed that for every dollar a mn spends in fertilizer he gets back
49, 60 leaving him a clean, clear froft of g. go on every dollar he spends for
fertilizer. The profit is greater then on side dressing, because in the side
dressing the crop gets every ounce of fertilizer, where it gets not over half
of that which is applied when the crop is planted. "
Few people realize the value of side dressing and the profit in it. If
thew did, we feel sure they would fine farming very much more profitable!
To change the reading of the text of the Good Book a little, we will say
when you know the trtuh, the truth shall make you free. .
Now, we are making a fertilizer especially adapted to side dressing.
It takes a different fertilizer for side dressing than it does for that which is
applied at the time the crop is planted; it requires quicker action, for what
ever is done to improve the crop in May or June must be done quickly. The
business of this crop requheth haste, so we have compounded a fertilizer
especially adapted to side dressing We manufacture and SD which is ex-
celent: we also have 412 which is better because it acts little quicker:
then we have 4102 which is better still; then we have 96 which is a pre-
scription. 1t is a combination medicine and tonic, makes a crop grow and
wards off diseases to which cotton is liable. 1t will cost you something, but
it will bring you more than it COSTS You get back more than three times
what you pay out lin any Of these fertilizers that you get for side dressing
We have had a number of farmers tell US that 1900 pounds of seed
cotton that has been side dressed will turn out as heavy a bale of cotton as
800 pounds of seed cotton that has not been side dressed and besides it
makes a better sample and a better sample brings a better price.
Nnw lest Ie forget the frtEzer made by the Anderson Phosphate &