Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1914-05-13
Side Dressing
Is Profitable

iNllS lSl-
tiliZer Will make such a difference in
the o You can see this difference
by comparing a field fortified with a
field of cotton that is not fertilizad
You will come to the conclusion that
fertilizer man are giving you good
such a difference.
AS your cotton grows, your ferti-
liZer is absorbed and used up, and
along in July and August your cotton
Is putting on it's 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 lust
as the strain is ~increasin,, 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 su%stenance, or, you might
say for "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
he mules, you increase the food and
then they do lot hold their own.
suppose you did lot increase their
food when you increased their work:
wouldn't you expect them to shed.
too?
In pNnrv contact FOR nnr, ~ a. n,tl~.
that has been entered into for years
past, the II who got the prize side
dressed his crop, and more than once.
There is no accident about this; 1t 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.
In 1911 this county made the big
gest cotton crop it has V e grown.
and 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
da morning to last 1t until Satur-
day, and you have no notion Of Civ
ing 1t enough corn and water in April
to last it until October, but that is
what vow do whom Won fcr+ilize your
cotton in AuIfI and expect tL to ieei
q crop until it. natures in October.
In a mans iarminG, his cotton crop
Is his money crUp-~his way OF max
lDg a croft, and he only makes one
cotlon crop q year. That being the
case, 1t will pay him 10 nurse his crop,
feed it, look after 1T. 1t has been es-
tjmated that for every dollar a man
spends in fertilizer he gets back
$3.50, leaving him a clean, clear
profit Of $500 on every dollar he
spends for fertilizer. The profit Is
greater on side-dressing, because in
side-dressing the crop gets every
ounce of fertilizer, where 1T 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 a when you know the truth,
the truth shall make you free.
Now, we are making a fertilizer
especially adapted to embarrassing.
1t takes a different fertilizer for side
dressing than it does for hat 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 8-4-4 which is excellent; we
also have 4-7-2 which Is better, be-
cause 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
on 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
side-dressing.
We have had a number Of farmers
tell us that 1900 pounds Of seed cot
ton that has been si~de-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-
PHATE AND OIL COMPANY boys
is the best put in sacks, or barrels, or
tubs or pots. 1t is the best fertilizer
for embarrassing or for any other
purpose that you have ever admins
tered to your crop. We have it ready
made and ready to be shipped. 1t
is bagged and tagged.