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tilizing mixtures were applied in the drill just before planting. This 

 was done by opening the rows and applying carefully the weighed 

 amounts designated for the different plats. Then this was covered 

 by means of a cultivator, straddling the open furrow, going once to 

 the row and making a small ridge just over the fertilizer. On this 

 ridge the seed were planted, using a planter for both cotton and corn. 



Fig. 3— Cotton grown at the Edgecombe Farm in the Nitrate of Soda Tests and receiving an appli- 

 cation of 200 pounds of Acid Phosphate and 50 pounds of Manure Salt. 



The land used for the corn tests at the Edgecombe farm has been 

 given over to a rotation of corn and crimson clover, the crimson 

 clover being sowed between the corn rows and harrowed in during 

 the latter part of August. After the corn was cut off during Sep- 

 tember the clover had possession of the land until it bloomed in the 

 spring, when it was plowed in and corn planted. The growth of 

 clover has never been very large. This short rotation has now been 

 running some three or four years. 



