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ExriOKIMENT CONDUCTED IN 1900 BY W. N. INGRAM, 8 

 MILES EAST OF OpELIKA, LeE COUNTY. 



The description of the land seems to indicate that the 

 soil was a yellowish loam, with subsoil of somewhat the 

 same character, and not compact. The original growth 

 is reported as oak and hickory, which had been removed 

 about forty years before. The rainfall was excessive in 

 June. The preceding crop was corn. 



The results are not entirely conclusive, but on the 

 Avhole they show that cotton seed meal' was profitable 

 and that the returns from the other fertilizers this wet 

 vear were not satisfactory. 



Increase of seed cotton per acre when cotton seed 

 meal was added: 



added : 



To unfertilized plot 248 lbs. 



To acid phosphate plot — 30 lbs. 



To kainit plot 242 lbs. 



To acid phosphate and kainit plot 180 lbs. 



Average increase with cotton seed meal 160 lbs. 



Increase of seed cotton per acre when acid phosphate 



was added : 



To unfertilized plot 96 lbs. 



To cotton seed meal plot — 182 lbs. 



To kainit plot 8T lbs. 



To cotton seed meal and kainit plot 25 lbs. 



Average increase with acid phosphate 7 lbs. 



Increase of seed cotton per acre when kainit was 

 added : 



To unfertilized plot 29 lbs. 



To cotton seed meal plot 23 lbs. 



To acid phosphate plot 20 lbs. 



To cotton seed meal and acid phosphate plot. . . .230 lbs. 



Average increase with kainit 75 lbs. 



