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INCONCLUSIVE EXPERIMENTS. 

 COLBERT COUNTY, 2 MILES EAST OF TUSCUMBIA, 



G. H. Harris. 



Dark clay loam:, valley soil; red clay subsoil. 



This land has been in cultivation for a long time. The pre- 

 ceding crop was oats. There was no shedding or rust, but the 

 cotton caterpillar damaged the crop about 60 per cent, render- 

 ing the results inconclusive. (See page 50.) The most profit- 

 able application was on Plot 12, affording a profit of $4.34, or 

 89 per cent on the cost of fertilizers. 



The average estimated increase of seed cotton per acre due 

 to the use of cotton seed meal was 69 pounds ; 108 pounds for 

 acid phosphate ; and a loss of 6 pounds for kainit. 



Nitrate of soda applied June 15 was more effective than was 

 cotton seed meal. 



Experimenis at Tuscumbia 



