EXPKIUMKXT MADE IX 1899 BY E. MeLTOX, OXE MILE 

 WEST OF HUGENT, FaYETTE COUXTY. 



Darlc or '^'' muJatto" soil, tcith red clay ■subsoil. 



The original growth, removed about 50 years ago, is 

 reported "as short-leaf pine, oak, and hickory. The three 

 l^receding crops were corn. The plants were free from 

 rust. 



As shown in the d(.'tailed statement below, phos- 

 phate Avas the fertilizer chiefly needed by this soil, and 

 its use, alone and in ever}' combination, was highly 

 profitable, the average increase attributable to phosphate 

 being 3G4 pounds of seed cotton i)er acre. Cotton seed 

 meal was next in importance, affording an average in- 

 crease of 168 pounds per acre. 



The most profitable fertilizer was a mixture of acid 

 phosphate and cotton seed meal. Kainit was not 

 needed. 



Increase of seed cotton per acre when cotton seed meal 



was used: 



To unfertilized plot 128 lbs. 



To acid phosphate plot 160 lbs. 



To kainit plot 176 lbs. 



To acid phospliate and kainit plot 208 lbs. 



Average increase with cotton seed meal 168 lbs. 



Increase of seed cotton per acre when acid phosphate 

 was added : 



To unfertilized plot 100 lbs. 



To cotton seed meal plot • * 432 lbs. 



To kainit plot 296 lbs. 



To cotton seed meal and kainit plot 328 lbs. 



Average increase with acid phosphate. 364 lbs. 



