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was reported as good. The season was dry after July 1. 

 The land was not suflQciently uniform to permit of conclu- 

 sions. 



The experiment at Evergreen was made by F. M. Round 

 tree on the farm of the South Alabama Agricultural School, 

 on red sandy soil. The test is not conclusive. 



The figures suggest in 1897, as also in 1896, a need of ni 

 trogen in ,spite of the fair yields obtained on the unfertilized 

 plots. It is evident that the variations in the fertility of the 

 soil are so great and so abrupt as to render impossible the 

 drawing of any definite conclusions from these experimente. 



Experiment Made by J. A. Wilkinson, 4 Miles West of 



AUTAUGAVILLE, AUTAUGA CoUNTY. 



Soil, chocolate sandy, or red ; subsoil red, with some gravel. 



This land, cultivated for fifty or sixty years, had been in 

 cotton for many years without fertilizers of any kind. The 

 stand was uniform. Rust, present on some plots, was appa- 

 rently not destructive. The weather was dry during most 

 of the growing season, which probably explains the slight 

 influence of fertilizers on the yield. 



The wide variation in the yields of the two unfertilized 

 plots introduces a-n element of uncertainty which is, per- 

 haps, not entirely overcome by the method of computing the 

 increase. 



Bearing this in mind, we can regard the experiment as 

 only suggestive, and not as indicative, of a moderate in- 

 crease from cottonseed meal and kainit, and of a slight ef- 

 fect from acid phosphate. 



An experiment was made by Mr. O. W. Smith one mile 



