The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1914-05-06

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Your crop will be largely made or marred in the months of May and
June. II you get it started off growing nicely in these months, given good
preparation you standa very much better chance of making a good crop
and your crop will. stand adverse conditions better in July and August.
fla pig gets stunted in its early youth, lit is almost impossible to make
a good rousing hog out of It later If your cotton is stunted, or if it gets
sore shin or any of the other ailments to which cotton is liable, it has to re-
cover from this before it can take on its natural growth, and it never does
IS well as it would if it had not suffered these troubles. Side dressing, By
supplying plant food, makes this pand vigorous and healthy and strong
and it grows off from the start. If You break your arm and tit, and get
it properly set and properly knitted together, it is never 8 strong Is before
it was broken. "a bird with a broken wing never scars sc high again.
And it is with your cotton. Early attention and early fertilizer is more
than half of the battle. There ais no question of side dressing paying. You
notice what top dressing did for grain this spring: as soon IS 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-
paraton for a crop has been unusually fine this spring, and where the pre-
paration is fine the farming is good and side dressing is bound to pay.
= Some farmers have found side dressing improbable; that is. because it
was applied too late; if It should be applied early, as soon as you bring your
cotton to a stand, because you do not care to side dress cotton that you are
going to cut out; and ass soon as you get the grass out of your cotton, be-
cause you do not care to side dress grass; grass takes care of itself lin a 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 to a few years ago
France used more fertilizer than the whole United States of America and
they lid not use it all at once, either. The French farmers make very fine
crops. "
in making crops. Joel Keys told the writer of a Mr. Rogers down in Flor
ene county who side dressed his cotton every time he cultivated it, and
when he wound up cultvatng his crop he had used about 1900 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-Hnt cotton,
two bales weighing 40 pounds each to the acre. Now, if this is not profit
able, the most of us had better quit farming:
Side dressing your cotton prevents disease to which cotton is liable be-
cause it is stronger al better able 10 Withstand these troubles 1t is strong
er because tbs better fed. A we'll fed pig r a well fed child can resist
disease better than a little stunted child or pig: -
Then, when a mans cotton crop grows off we'll, when it is green and
greasy and growing, it makes him feel better; it encourages him to work it
better and he will have a better crop. Then too, a mar feels his oats a
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 al 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 of ii the Good Book;
when he tells man to do athing he does it.
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rains get q part of it; the grass gets a part the cotton that you cut out in
reducing your crop to a Stand has taken a part so your remaining crop gets
probably not more than half of what you put down.
Now, suppose you use 400 pounds to the acre of 1922 goods. You will
save 1913 ounces of ammonia; half of this has been taken up by the rains the
the grass and cotton you have taken out, 8 o you would have about 81 ounces
of ammonia and you have 147N cotton stalks to fertilizer with this 81
ounces of ammonia. The wonder is that so little fertilizer will make such
a difference in the crop. You can see this difference by comparing . field
= fertiizerd with a field Of cotton that is not fertiIze. You will come to the
conclusion that fertilizer men re giving you good goods or so little would
not make such a difference.
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 is hungerng and thirst
ing for plant food, for sustenance, or, you might say for vitles, as the
heart panteth after the water brook, the supply is reduced and is decreasing
and your crop sheds. What else can it do9 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?
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'S no accident about this; it is a consequence: A man does not stand
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dress.
In 1911 this county made the biggest cotton crop it has ever grown and
there was more 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 fertiize your cotton in April and K
pect it tx feed a crop until it natures in October.
In a mans farming, his cotton crop is his money crop-hs way of
making 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 estiamed thtat for every dollar a man spends in fertilizer he gets back
So CO. leaving him a clean, clear froft of 26O on every dollar he spends for
fertilizer. The profit is greater then on side dressing, because in the side
dressing the cop 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 q little, we will say
when Won know the truth, the truth shall make you free.
Now, W eae making a fertilizer especially adapted to side dressing.
II takes 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
eyer is done tx improve the crop in May or June must be done quickly. The
business of this crop requireth haste, 20 we have compounded a fertilizer
esneciauv adapted to side dressing. We manufacture and S44 which is x
celent: we also have 472 which is better because it acts little quicker: