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Mace Of Fertilizers
In Southern Agriculture
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Farmer-Banker Discusses Real Value of Fertilizers Out of His Years of
Experience, Observation and Study—Timely Topic Relating
to Vital 8outhem Problem—Extracts From an Address.
Bright Williamson, Darlington, S. C.
Agriculture is the bed rock and
foundation upon which every other in
dustry must stand or fall. All the
people prosper or fail to prosper ac
cording to the abundance of the har
vest of the soil, and upon agriculture
depends the prosperity and happiness
of the world.
Better methods of agriculture In
clude the use of modern implements,
modern cultivation and soil improve
ment. This brings us directly to the
importance of the fertilizer industry
as a means of improving our soils. Fer
tilizers are absolutely essential in or
der to increase the fertility of the soil.
They have a direct effect upon agri
cultural production and through the
products of agriculture a direct effect
upon all other industries.
Anything which contributes to an
increase in our agricultural produc
tions, contributes to the welfare, com
fort and prosperity of our people as
a whole; and this brings us directly
to the consideration of the importance
of the fertilizer industry in relation to
other lines of business.
Fertilizers Necessary in 9outh
The very nature of our soil, climate
and rainfall makes it impossible to
farm successfully without regularly
feeding our crops from artificial
sources with at least two of the sev
eral principal elements entering into
the composition and development of
plant life. Without fertilizers much of
the best producing cotton lands in the
South would become unproductive and
farming would be unprofitable, in
many states, except in a few locali
ties, soil is no more capable of pro
ducing without being fertilized than
stock is capable of performing work
and abandoned fields of South Caro
lina yield a greater profit per acre
than the richer river lands, once the
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.
I have been dealing with the efTect
of the fertilizer industry and the use
of fertilizers on agriculture, because,
as I 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 Js one
of the most important, and concerns
our prosperity more directly than any
other industry, and in Its effects no
other industry so ramifies into other
business or has a 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
izers 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 a third time, the railroads are call
ed upon to bring to the farmer his
supplies of foreign and domestic prod
ucts.
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
wunoui Doing ieu. uur ianu» must uti
fed just as we feed the stock that
work them or they will become too
poor to even pay the coat and expense
of cultivation.
Transformed Sections
Large sections of land In various
parts of the South Atlantic States, for
ty or fifty years ago, required four
or five acres to produce one bale of
cotton, which now, by intelligent farm
ing, made possible by the use of fer
tilizers, yield one bale to each acre,
or the equivalent, of other crops. Pov
erty stricken sections of one or two
generations ago have been transform
ed into populous and prosperous com
munities. Our ability to rebuild and
make our lands more fertile has en
abled people to live and settle in ^iore
desirable communities, and to enjoy
advantages of better markets, schools,
churches and social conditions. Bet
ter rural conditions have made the
‘‘back to the farm” movement not only
a possibility, but a reality.
Prosperity Due to Fertilizers
Whatever may be the direct benefit,
ft is obvious from a study of the sit
uation that the present prosperity arid
gfeater population in South Carolina
is due more largely to the use of
commercial fertilizers than to any oth
er cause, because in South Carolina
fertilizers are absolutely necessary to
profit able agriculture, upon which most
.of our business and other industries
depend. Had it not been for the use
ot commercial fertilizers South Caro
lina could not be considered an agri
cultural state.
Taking into consideration the cost
of fertilizers, statistics will bear out
the statement that the once worn out
practically unanown 10 us. snips unug
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 afTected
in even greater proportion than the
farmer himself, and there is no farm
er in the South who Is not benefited
by the judicious use of commercial
fertilizer. Large crops give to the
people a greater supply at a lower cost
of pvQduction and at a lower price
to the consumer, while on the other
hand small crops not only increase the ,
•ost of production, but may increase in ;
even greater proportion the price to
the consumer. When harvests are
abundant the consumer and producer
slike share in the increased prosper
ity.
Other means of cheapening the cost
of production can be used profitably
only on a very large or on a very
small scale, but fertilizers can be ap
plied with practically the same suc
cess to the smallest as well as the
largest undertaking from the individ- j
ual plant in the flower pot to the thou- j
sand acre cotton field.
It was my pleasure some years ago \
to know many more manufacturers j
and dealers in fertilizers than I know I
at present, but 1 Wish to testify to
the high character and intelligence of
those with whom I became associated. 1
The proper use of commercial fertil
izer by the farmer is obviously of vital i
importance to the fertilizer industry
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.
Aim At Above-the-Average
Yields In 1919
(From Progressive Farmer, Dec. 31.) ;
For the average Southern farmer,
we cannot think of a better resolution
for the Now Year than one calling^
for bettor than average yields. Aver
age yields, whatever the crop, mean,
over a period of * years, little more
than a living vag.c. But as the indi-,
vidua! farmer rises above the-average,
his not profits, nine times in ten, corre-!
spendingiy rise. The man who raisis
cotton must see that our average of
about one-third of h bale per acre can
only moan poverty to the grower; the
man who grows corn and oats at our
average rate of 15 to 20 bushels pet
acre must see that there can be *.o j
profit in such yields; our -peanut and
tobacco farmers, our dairy and general
livestock farmers must see that so j
iong as they are content with a more-j
ly average yield per acre on per ani- j
jr.al, just so long will they find the :
farming game unprofitable and unsat
isfactory. j
Good land, planted to good seeds j
and well fertiliz ‘d and well tilled is the
key to suet ul farming; for good
land, plus go< cl seed, fertilization and i
iilage, mean high yields aud good
profits. In ike new year, every farm
er should aim at these; <ind in getting
them, it should be remembered that i
rather liberal expenditures are justi- j
liable. For instance, when a bale of j
cotton with the seed is worth $150, our
pverage per acre yield of one-third of a
bale is worth $50; but when we in
crease this to two-thirds of a bale,
worth $100, we have a gross profit of
$50 with which to pay for the cost of
the increase. Of course the cost of
this incrca od yield, if the matter be
gone about judiciously, will practically
never be as much as $50. More often
than not, in fact, it will bo $25 or less,
leaving a net profit of $25 or more per
acre. And the same rule will hold with
other crops and livestock as well. The
higher the yield per acre or per animal,
within certain limits, the greater the
net return.
The n. w year and the years to come
hold great things for the thinking, pro
gressive, busino:- -like, farmer. Prices
promise to re; 'ain good for a long
tine, and fair pr. fits seem certain for
the man who farms right.
Let us, as our first New Year resolu
tion, aim at ; tr :rg our farms on a
big-yield-ng, me n y-making basis.
There is no sum* ■ ay for making farm
life more a ua. tiv and desirable and
for keeping the boys and girls on
farms.
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Tar Compound, for coughs, colds and
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Cathartic Tablets.—Walker’s Phar
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DON'T INVITE A COLD OR THE
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