REPORT OF GENERAL FARM WORK ON THE IREDELL TEST 



FARM, 1903-1910. 



SUMMARY OF EXPERIMENTAL WORK WITH COTTON, CORN 

 AND PEAS, 1903-1909. 



By B. W. KiLGORE, F. T. Meacham, F. S. Puckett. 



I. REPORT OF GENERAL FARM WORK. 



The Farm; consisting of 208 acres, was obtained in the fall of 

 1902, though work was not commenced until the spring of 1903. 

 The citizens of Statesville made a considerable donation toward the 

 purchase of the farm as an inducement to its location near that 

 town. It is located about one and one-half miles west of the Court- 

 house and fronts on the Tajlorsville public road. The Taylorsville 

 branch of the Southern Railway passes through the farm. In the 

 main, the land is a red clay loam, with rather stiff clay subsoil. 



Figure — Macadam Road by Farm. 



Only about twenty acres on the farm were in cultivation, the rest 

 being in woods, old field pines, briers, etc. The land was badly 

 washed and the information we obtained was that the portion in 

 cultivation was producing about seven bushels of corn and 200 

 pounds of seed cotton per acre. 



Object of the Farm. — The first and main object of the farm was 

 to conduct experiments to obtain much needed new information as 

 to the fertilizer needs of corn, the grains, cotton, peas and other 



