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■prim ihc rt'sulls of a variety test made on the A. H. Clarke 

 plantation about half a mile northeast of the depot at 

 McOehee's iir^witch station, Moutgomerv county. 



The soil is gray prairie upland of about average quality, 

 not recently fertilized, so far as is known, until the present 

 vear. Planting was done April 29-30. On June 1. fertili- 

 sers as below were ai)]>lied on the side of the row in the 

 shallow furrow made l>y the first cultivation. The fertilizer 

 was then covered by the throwing out of the middle:?. The 

 fertilizer used consisted of: 



200 lbs. acid phosphate per acre. 



200 lbs. kainit per acre. 



100 lbs. nitrate soda ]>er acre. 



This date of application was doubtless too late for good 



results for this season and on this soil, as shown not only in 



variety tests, but in fertilizer tests on another part of the 



same fiehl. Thi'ough a nnsunderstanding the plots were not 



thinned to a uniform stand, but it was found that the yield 



'of three plots of Truitt did not vary greatly with variations 



in the stand. As it was impracticable to gin the seed cotton 



of each plot separately at McGehee's. the yield of lint is 



•obtained by multi])lying the weight of seed cotton by the 



.per cent, of lint found in the variety test at Auburn in 1904. 



