Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1914-05-06
Side=Dressing
Is Profitable

tiliZer VIII make such a difference in
the crop. You can see this difference
by comparing a field fortified witt .
field of cotton hat Is not sS"tilizod
You will come to the conclusion that
fertilizer man are giving you good
goods or so little would ncc make
such a difference.
AS your cotton grows, your ferti-
lizer is absorbed aid used up, and
along in July and August your cotton
IS putting on its fruit, and when this
is going on the strain on the cotton
plant is greatest. Now, Just at the
time when the strain is greatest, the
supply of plant food, which Is al
ready reduced, is weakening, SO just
as the strain is increasing by the adj
ditional fruit that the stalk takes on.
Just at the time when your plant is
hungering and thirsting for plant
FOOD, for s~ustenance, or, you might
say, o "vittles," as the hart panteth
after the water brook, the supply Is
reduced and Is decreasing and your
CROP sheds. What else can It do?
When your farm work is heaviest on
the mules, you increase the GOD 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?
In every contest for corn or cotton
that has been entered into for years
past, the one who got the prize side
dressed his crop, and more than once.
There is no accident about this; it Is
a consequence. A man does not
the prize in a crop contest who does
not side-dress.
In 1911 this county made the big
gest cotton crop it has ever grown
II there was more embarrassing
used than ever. That was no acct
dent, either; it was another conse-
quence. You do not expect to give
your mule enough corn and oats Mon
day morning to last it until Satur-
day, and you have no notion Of Civ
ing it enough corn and water in April
to last it until October, but that is
! what YOU do when "a fertiliac your
cotton in April and expect Il To feed
a crop uatil it natures N. October
IN q mans farming, his cotton crop
is MS money crop his way OF max
ing q profit, aud he only makes one
cotton crop a year. That being the
case, 1t Will pay him to nurse his crop,
feed 1t, look after 1t. 1t has been es-
timated that for every dollar a man
spends in fertilizer he gets back
$3.50, leaving him a clean, clear
profit Of $500 or every dollar he
spends for fertilizer. The profit is
greater on embarrassing, because in
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
they did, we feel sure they would
find farming very much more profit
able. To change the reading of the
text Of the Good Book a little, we
will say when you know the truth,
the truth shall make you free.
Now, we are making a fertilizer
especially adapted to side-dressing,
1t 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 whatever is done to improve the
crop in May or June must be done
quickly. The business Of this crop
requireth haste, so we have COM
pounded a fertilizer especially adapt
ed to embarrassing. We manufac-
ture an SID which is excellent; we
also have 4-7-2 which Is better, be-
aus it acts a little quicker; then
we have 4-10-2 which is better still;
then we have a 90 which is a pre-
scription. 1t is a combination medi-
cine and tonic, makes a crop grow
and wards off disease to which cot
ton Is liable. 1t will cost you some
thing, but it will bring you more than
it costs. You get back more than
three times what you pay out in any
Of these fertilizers that you get for
embarrassing.
We have had a number Of farmers
tell us that 1900 pounds OF seed cot
on 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.
Now, lest we forget, the fertilizer
made by the ANDERSON PHOS-
PLATE AND OIL COMPANY boys
is the best put in sacks, or barrels, or
tubs or pots. 1t is the best fertilizer
for side-dressing or for any other
purpose that you have ever admins
tered to you crop. We have it ready
made and ready to be shipped. 1t
is bagged and tagged.