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MIK A X DIO UKO N PHOSPHATE ?V OIL COMPANY. Tl HO ANDLHSON PI?O: 11 ATE & Olli COMPANY. ?H6KHBHMBBHHM THIO ANDERSON I IIOSP1IA1 I*. .V < [Preparations Have B COTTO If ii bumper crop should be made lt will probably sell for more at the flrst of the season than it will later on. as thc sup ply of cotton will probably be a little short In the early part of the fall. This being the case, lt will pay you to have sonic early cotton. The crop 1B going to start off a little late, so If you want carly cotton the way to get. lt ls to side-dress your crop thor oughly and as often as you can. Joel Keys, formerly of this place, and now in Darlington, told the writer that he knew a man in Florence county, South Carolina, who side-dressed his crop nearly every time lie cultivated it. When he lays by he has applied from 1.800 to 2,000 pounds of fertilizer to the acre of his cotton. Last year he averaged 884 pounds of lint cotton to the acre. Wc have no doubt that the last 1,000 pounds of fertilizer he applied made him over 4 00 pounds of lint cotton. You can figure his prollt with cotton at 14c. a lound. Side-dressing ls the economical and Intel..gent way to fer tilize your cotton, lt ls hy no means the best way to apply all of your fertilizer al and before planting. You don't put enough food in a stall for a mule on Monday morning to last him until Saturday night. You feed it along as he needs lt. You don't try to eat enough yourself on Monday morning to last you until Saturday night, but eat it along as you need it. If a doctor gives you a bottle of medicine to take as a tonic, you don't take it all at once, but you take it along as you need it. Fertilizer is a medicine and a tonic for cotton, and the way to apply lt is to feed the crop along as lt needs it. The reason cotton sheds is because it is lacking in plant food. If you will apply the ferti lizer, which is plant food, along as your cotton needs It, it won't shed, and all a good farmer wants ls to keep bis cotton from shedding and he will make ? i oed crop. Now, you can't depend upon side-dressing entirely. The seasons may he such that you can't apply it. And the way to fertilize is to put it in the ground nt or before the time of lal you can. You won't " c too kind-the kind we arc- (haiti euee friend to use froia '.> ? lng some before plaiting.'' - dressing frequently ai .' inej aero. You won't use too been well prepared, a ? tlfoy state of cultivation, ai ri.?i ! people In this countr; ?nc fertilizer. Up to six ye?r? the whole United States pl size of the State of G i rgl and villages in lt. A g'f pasture, and ls occupied lagos and lu the country, roads. Allowing for ?ll > less land in cultivation Iii j they must fertilizo very ty: in the whole United Slates . a great deal heavier thar, risk In putting down . io tn in France are' much b- tter have been In a high i A great deal of theil iain They have lots of peo,!, i make big crops to fe< rj th able. They know that Un deal of fertilizer, and hon lizer, The people he>v ?i year.' We can all rei itvh as was used. This y( th sold more 10 per eeir ii . and then side-dress as often as h fertilizer If you get. tho right You see how lt pays our Flor ',000 pounds to the acre, apply hen he planted, and thon ulde 84 pounds of lint cotton to tho fertilizer on lands that have been this year, and in a good 3 lands In this county are. The oegliining to learn how to UBC ranee used more fertilizer than lea. Now France ls about the has a great many cities, towns 1 of the land ls in forest and llings in tlie towns, cities, vll :eat deal of lt ls taken up In there ls probably a great deal ) than lu Ceorgla. So you see when more ls used there than leiica. They must put lt down ii here. So you won't run any rtllizer to pay well. The lands he lands In this country, '"hey tlvatlon for hundreds of years. rent for $75 an acre a year. so lt is necessary for them to le and to make farming profit way to do lt is to use a great ire using very high grade ferti g higher grade fertilizer every n 12 per cent acid was as high irson Phosphate & Oil Company any other kind. We sold more ANDERSON PHOSPHATE ?V OIL COMPANY high grade fertilizer this year than we ever sold before. As a slde-dresser nothing lower grade than 8-4-4 should bo used. That acts more rapidly and acts better than lower grade goods. We think the 8-4-4 goods will pay better as a side-dresBer than nitrate of Boda. 'Now, soda acts quickly and exhausts. That l8 like a crop getting a good soaking season, followed by a dry spell. Our 8-4-4 is made of high grade phosphoric aeld, high grade blood, high grade tankage, tish scrap and some nitrate of soda. The nitrate In this 8-4-4 which wo make acts quickly, and then ls followed by the blood and tankage and tish scrap, so that lt has the effect on a crop of a good soaking season followed by the showers, to keep lt growing and healthy. Nitrate of soda has practically no potash In lt. This 8-4-4 of ours has 4 per cent of potash. , Now potash prevents rust In cotton and blight and vari ous other diseases cotton is subject to. lt enables cotton to stand drought, better than lt would without lt. It also develops the lint, maker, a better boll, and altogether ls a great advantage to a crop. You don't get this advantage In using soda as a slde dresser, by itself. Anderson county made more cotton last year than any county east of the Mississippi river. Anderson county would have made less cotton last year If less side-dressing had been done. W. A. (Hud) Simpson, of near Piedmont, made 300 bales of cotton last year on 300 acres of land. He side-dressed libe rally. It cost him less than $5,000 to make hls 300 bales of cotton. You can figure his profit with cotton at 14c. a pound. Now we don't know what cotton ls going to bring another year, but no matter what the price ls, the more you make to the acre the moro profit you have to the acre. lt will probably bring a better price early In the season than it will later. The way to get early cotton ls to side-dress lt, as that pushes the crop. 5 C v. SC > O P 3 I I We Want to Show You What Some of the Goo Fertilizer as a armers of This County Who Have Been Using Our Dresser Think of lt. J. S. Fowler says: "Slde-dreB8lng will pay a profit of 100 per cent." p]liaa McGee says: "Side-dressing ia a paying business. Any man who side-dresses once will always do it again." B. J. Smith: "lt will pay 25 per ,). h'.h '. ? 1 Reuben McGee: "lt will increase the crop one-fourth." A. E. Dean says: "Slde-dre.sslng ls very profitable, thc plant getting the full heniflt of all the fertilizer and that it will stop the shedding of the squares." H, E. Cooley says: "Side-dressing pays hotter than it does to fertilize when the crop is started." J. R. Austin says: "It will increase the yield 25 per cent." J. R. Miller says: "1 find it very profitable." John B. McDaniel says: "It will increase the crop one-third." P. L. Tate says: "It Is very profit able." J. Clyde Green says: "I expect to side-dress both cotton and corn this year." J. G. Harris says: "By side-dress ing I make from 10 to 60 bushels of corn to the acre where I formerly made 20." J. D. Babb says "He makes more on a one-horse crop by side-dressing than his tenant did on a two-horse crop without side-dressing." G. VV. dillard: ide." E. E. Gruber says: "it will pay 60 per cent on the money Invested for side-dressing. ' C. M. Campbell says: ' The fertili zer used In side-dressing pays better than that used before the crop ls planted.' T. R. Cason says: "Ho got a great profit by side-dressing." Ira F. Copeland says: "it increas ed his yield one-third.'" lt. L Hall says: "He has been greatly benefited by side-dressing." Jas. A. CON: .says "lt pays him well .'ind he advises every tanner to fry it." "Finds it profita R. J. Gambrell says: "He made one-fourth more by side-dressing." J. S. Martin says: "With favorable seasons he finds if will increase his crop one-fourth." C. B. Lewis: "He finds lt pays him RA ner cent." ? ? ' .:?. lian ;. : . v> ;>?d( -tl . 1 ps i?n t .h, a \ I wit W. M. Strickland says: "It pays to side-dress." J. C. Bolt says: "lt pays to side dress." T. C. Stewart says: "lt will pay from 20 to 25 per cent." R. B Cooper says: "He made 168 bushels of corn on five acres of ordi nary land by side-dressing." J. A. Linley says: "He left two acres un-side-dressed, which was not half as good as the cotton which he side-dressed. He says he made 1,650 pounds of cotton to the acre on tho land that was slde-dresBod against 1,000 pounds where lt was not side dressed." W. T. Clark says: "It paid him 25 per cent. Finds it pays to slde dress cotton and corn." John S. Cromer says: "It pays If not applied too late." J. E. Sadler says: "He made one third more where he side-dressed than where be did not." Clarence '.V. Beaty says: "He finds that lt has paid him the last two years and he expects to continue lt. He says lie has yet to see and try a fertilizer that is better than our 8-4-4." Samuel McCrnry says: "lt has paid bim and be expects to continue lt and to side-dress more extensively this year than ever." .1. W. Hall says: "He thoroughly believes In side-dressing. He linds the A. P. K- O. as good. If not better (han any he has ever used." Wm. F. Lee says: "lt paid hand somely when properly applied tit the proper time." H. M. Anil says: "lie finds it prof itable." .1. M. Knox: "lt makes at least one-fourth more cotton to thc acre. Ile expects to side-dress Iiis whole ero]> this year." H. (I p to Fost? every 3 fertillzt dresser b seed co' lo . says supp.? pounds ol pounds til ;<oou < A\ > potjj pounds /, pplymg at I Cat ber) viff t;>. li says: "That for of well balanced ore, used as slde s 100 pounds of >se per acre. He land made 1,000 .ton by using 300 iddlng 500 pounds follows: 3-3. -lier .i i< . ?pundKi 60i ta 23 All costs.$9 25 Making 500 pounds extra seed cotton, or 175 pounds lint, at oven 10c. pound.$17 50 Taking off all costs. 9 25 Leaves extra profit .$ 8 2 5 Not counting the extra seed. I consider the money I Invest in fer tilizer tho best investment I make." John T. Bolt says: "It pays to use 8-4-4 as a side-dresser." P. T. Haynle says: "It increases his crop 25 per cent." J. E. Stevenson says: "It has in creased his crop 50 percent." L. Oscar Dean says: "CropB do better, they fruit better and hold their fruit better when side-dressed than when they are not." Paul D. Martin says: "He gathered 1,500 pounds of cotton to the acre where It is side-dressed, against 1,000 pounds of cotton to the acre where it is not side-dressed." George F. McConnell says: "It In creased his yield from 2 00 to 300 pounds of seed cotton to the acre." E, P. Gambrell says: "it increased his crop ^0 per cent." E. D. Farmer says: "It increased his crop at least 25 per cent." C. L. Cobb says: 'lt will make two extra bales of cotton to every ton of Anderson Phosphate & Oil Company s 8-4-4 that he uses as a side-dresser. A. P. & O. Company's 8-4-4 pays better than soda." W. C. Bl rod says: "lt pay? iron, 20 to 25 por cont." C. J. Hoggs says: "lt will double the yield, especially on corn, if high grade fertilizer's are used." N, A. Burgess says: "He has side dressed corn and has doubled the yield." J. H. Martin says: "lt pays him at least 60 per cent." Ellas Earl? says: "He made 24 bales of cotton on 20 acres of land last year by side-dressing." John T. Green says: "He can safely say lt Increased his crop from 20 to 33 1-3 per cent." Jonathan McClelland ?\<li rep.* bis er? j 1 g.ts. c. Milford shy? 'II lining! i who says: if CN pac galr. will] 'it ivy. HI "It Mi tt ni >n? "It pays 25 50 per cent about -i-- -a.** w. ~ ,. Mrs. M. F. Kelly says: per cent on cotton and on corn." S. H. Whitefield says: "It about doubles bis yield. He expects to al ways side-dress hereafter and to use Anderson goods, as lt ls the best be has ever used." J. D. Cartee says: "It pays from 25 to 40 per cent." Lewis D. Blake flndB side-dreBslng advantageous. M. T. Fleming says: "He finds he made at least one-fourth more by side-dressing." Rev. W. B. Hawkins says: "lt will Increase the yield one-fourth where the preparation has been aatlsfac tory." E. B. Griffin says: "He will make one-fourth more cotton by slde drcBslng, and on some of his land he has doubled thc yield by side-dress ing." J. H. Pruitt says: "lt pays hand somely, and bo expects to continue it." Joe W. Clement says: "It Increas ed his yield at least one-fourth." E. C. Rogers: "lt Increases his yield at least one-fourth." P. A. Smith says: "It increased lils yield at least one-third." R. I. Blrotl linds it pays well. W. K. Maddox says it increases the yield one-third. Eugene Mays says: "He would not farm without using side-dressing, as it. increases the yield from 30 to 60 per cent, and sometimes more." A. R. Allen says: "He made a bale of cotton to HU? acre by using 300 pounds of fertilizer as a side-dresser." ll. M. Tate says: "Ile would not farm without it. lt'pays handsomely to feed crops while tiley grow." J. L. Pettigrew says: "lt Increased his crop at least one-fourth." C. II. Ganaway says: "It pays and he expects to continue it." J. Belton Watson says: "It Increas ed his yield at least one-fourth. He expects to side-dress more exten .dvoiv this vear than ever." Dr I. M. Kt.-ha rd von say:-. "It in* <-r< ;-. et the yield ir.?rn 20 ti p i ti ..-' y njroWi '? ? c' "i increiiiejf) the. w. . frnr i > to ' . per cen?,." F. E. Watkins says: "He uses 300 pounds as a side-dresser as soon as the cotton gets largo enough to run around and finds lt profitable." Nelson R. Green says: "Will In crease the yield of cotton about one third and will almost double the yield of corn." P. D. Martin says: "lt pays from 20 to 25 per cent." John T. Milford says: "It pays aa much again." profitable to C. F. Martin find side-dress. H. H. Russell says: He uses 500 pounds to the acre and of this he uses 300 pounds in side-dressing and finds It very profitable." Wade Drake says: "Ho would not farm without slde-dresBlog. That lt ls the cheapest labor he can get and pays at least 1.00 per cent." A. S. Morgan says: "It pays 100 per cent. He never expects to work a crop without it." L. N. Martin says: "Side-dressing adds 100 pounds of lint cotton to the acre." H. T. McFall says: "It pays fro n 10 to 50 per cent, depending on the time of application and the seasons." J. N. Nance says: "Side-dressing pays handsomely." * B. F. Gentry says: "lt pays at' least ?io per cen*." W. H, Martin says: "If conditions are favorable it will pay 25 per cent." .lohn Allen says: "It will pay from 60 to 75 per cent to side-dress." W. 10. Stone says: "He makes about 50 per cent per acre more where he side-dresses than where he does not." J. Melting, of Pelton, says: "Side dressing is a hobby of his and that he has found it exceedingly profit able." O i > ty Von will seo di ff eren 1 fm mer? of from this thal the estimate the extra profil made by sid? ; made by the -dressing vary. Thal i.-, accounted for largely, we think, hy the difference in th times it is applied. h is very probabh that some ol' dresser too lat.-. We think .lune is the apply it. And when it is applied then profitable Investment yon can make on a weather sets in alter (hal the increase the weather conditions are average. h fertilizer to become plant food. Yon want to apply your shh (dresser as carly as yon can. and you want to use high grad" goode, say our 8-4-1. If these men whose names we have given know anything ahout it ii will certainly pay von, and they aro among the best farmers in Anderson count v.* them applied (lie side most profitable lime to it is certainly the most farm. Of con rsc, if dry won t he as much as If takes rain to enable the We are making a great deal ol' 8-4-4 especially 'prepared to side-dressing, lt is for salo and we want you to use it be cause we know it will pay you. lt will prevent your cotton from shedding; it will bring ii in early, and the chances aro that the early hird will get tho worm next fall. Fertilizer thal is put into the ground at ?md indore plant ing gradually grows weaker, of course, by reason of rains and absorption, and by the timo the crop, begins io fruit the plant food (fertilizer) ls weakened and is weakening. The crop needs more plant food during the fruiting season limn at any other time. The reason cotton sheds ls because it is not supplied with BU fl) eleni plant food to sustain lt. Ko that at the very time it needs Hie most plant food Its supply is weakened and ls gradu ally growing weaker, while the Increasing fruit is increasing the strain on the plant. Tho rosult ls lt throws off, or sheds, all' the fruit it is unable to support and that cuts the crop off. Now the way to (dop this shedding is to furnish it with plant food hy side-dressing with a good fertilizer, (let the best fertilizer for side-dressing. The season for side-dressing is short, and if you make a mistake in selecting your fertilizer for side-dressing, hy the time you see your mistake if is too late to correct it. (Jet a well-pulverized fertilizer. Tho liner you chew your food the quicker you can digest it, and the liner you have your fertilizer the quicker it. becomes plant food, and aide-dressing must act quickly to bo profitable Get the best for this. Don't Jeopardize a dollar to save a dime, rather use the dime and save the dollar. Side-dressing makes tho plant grow rapidly, shades the ground quicker, ?iud makes more vegetable matter to be returned to the soil, and that builds up your land. From every point of view side-dressing i* profitable, J. R. VANDIVER, PRESIDENT. ANDERSON PHOSPHATE AND OIL COMPANY, ANDERSON, SOUTH CAROLINA. D.S. VANDIVER, MANAGER. THF AX 1)10 H SON PHOSPHATE AL OIL COMPANY. Til IO AN Di: 11 SON PHOSPHATE ?Sk Olli COMPANY. TINO ANDERSON PHOSPHATE & OIL COMPANY.