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^Iv. 'Chisiu also made similar experiments in ISOO and 

 H'JOO. In those years cotton seed meal was the only fer- 

 itilizer that was of material advantage. The results as a 

 whole indicate that on this second bottom a fertilizer of 

 ^unusual comi)osition is i^equii-ed and that it should con- 

 tain more of 'cotton seed meal than of any other fertilizer. 



Experiments at Tick, Bibh county. 



Increase of seed cotton per acre when cotton see:l meal was a ld:d; 



1901 1903 



'To unfertilized plot 192 lbs. .>A2 lbs. 



'To acid phosphate plot 128 lbs. 398 lbs. 



To kainit plot 112 lbs. 235 lbs. 



'To acid phosphate and kainit plot 140 lbs. 2G2 lbs. 



'Average increase with c&tton seed meal 143 lbs. 284 lbs. 



