Newport daily independent., 1919-01-17
RIace Of Fertilizers
 In Southern Agriculture
Fertilizers of His Years of study-Timey Topic Relating
 Southern Probem-Extracts From an Address

Darlington, s. C.
 and abandoned fields of South Caro- ilina yield a greater profit per acre pride of the Southern cotton planter, or than the more fertile lands of Texas.
 Land Values Increased
 This statement Is reflected in the fact that these same lands in parts | of South Carolina are selling freely for more. than $100.00 per acre. sge
 I have been dealing with the effect
 of the fertilizer industry and the use
 of fertilizers on agriculture, because.
 as have said, the effects on business generally must result from the effect
 on agriculture, and it is obvious that they must be innumerable.- The fer tilizer business in the South is one
 of the most important, and concerns our prosperity more directly than any
 other industry, and in it's effects no other industry so ramifies into other business or has greater effect on the industries and business generally.
 Helps Railroads and Manufacturers Perhaps among the industries which are more particularly and directly ben efited by the use of commercial fertil- lizers are the railroads and common
 carriers. which first bring fertilizers to the farmers, and in return trans port the increased products of the farm to the ends of the earth; and finally when these products are sold, for third time, the railroads are call ed upon to bring to the farmer his supplies of foreign and domestic prod iucts.
 The use of fertilizer has made more
 spindles in the South, more oil mills, more live stock, more people and more
 commerce. The tobacco crop and our trucking industry, requiring intensive fertilization and plant food, would be
 practically unknown to us. Ships bring
 raw material from foreign shores in
 greater quantities and in return carry away more cotton and grain -
 cheapens Cost of Producing Crops The commercial business is affected /, in even greater proportion than the farmer himself, and there is no farm le CT in the South who is not benefited | by the judicious use of commercial fertilizer. Large crops give to the people greater supply at a lower cost of production and at lower price | to the consumer, while on the other hand small crops not only increase the l,,,f s..nr iy, even greater prcporson the price to the consumer When harvests are abundant the consumer and producer
 alike share in the increased prosper Iity
 Other means of cheapening the cost
 of production can be used proftably only on very large or on very small scale, but fertilizers can be ap- piled with practically the same sue cess to the smallest as well as the largest undertaking from the individ
 ual plant in the flower pot to the thou sand acre cotton field.
 It was my pleasure some years ago
 to know many more manufacturers
 and dealers in fertilizers than I know lat present, but I wish to testify to
 the high character and intelligence of
 those with whom l became associated
 The proper use of commercial fertil-
 izer by the farmer is obviously of vital
 importance to the fertilizer in4ustry as well as to the farmer, and it is a matter that should receive thought and careful consideration at all times by those who promote the industry.