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constant cultivation some cotton seed meal would doubt- 

 less have been profitable. Kainit was slic^htly helpful 

 and as a part of a complete fertilizer, containing all 

 three materials, kainit paid a fair profit. 



Increase of seed cotton per acre when cotton seed 

 meal was added : 



To unfertilized plot 154 lbs. 



To acid phosplmte plot 30 lbs. 



To kainit plot 14 lbs. 



To acid phosphate and kainit plot 27 lbs. 



Average increase with cotton seed meal 56 lbs. 



Increase of seed cotton per acre when acid phosphate 

 was added : 



To unfertilized plot 240 lbs. 



To cotton seed meal plot 116 lbs. 



To kainit plot 274 lbs. 



To cotton seed meal and kainit plot 287 lbs. 



Average increase with acid phosphate 229 lbs. 



Increase of seed cotton per acre w^hen kainit was 

 added : 



To unfertilized plot 83 lbs. 



To cotton seed meal plot — 57 lbs. 



To acid phosphate plot 117 lbs. 



To cotton seed meal and acid phosphate plot. . . .114 lbs. 



Average increase with kainit 64 lbs. 



Experiment made in 1899 by A. M. Troyer^ f of a mile 

 N. OF Calhoun^ Lowndes County. 



The soil is described as a loam fairly retentive of wa- 

 ter and as being of a very light reddish color, with bright 

 red su'bsoil. The second growth of trees, removed about 

 5 years ago, w^as short leaf and old field pine. In 1896 



