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per acre of cotton seed, and another plot received 200 lbs. per 

 acre of cotton seed meal. The cotton seed, as well as the meal 

 and mineral fertilizers were harrowed in. 



March 4, a top dressing of 472 pounds of cotton seed per 

 acre was applied to another plot and 200 pounds per acre of 

 cotton seed meal was sown broadcast on yet another plot. 

 Fertilizers applied in spring were not harrowed in. 



The oats were cut May 23. 



Results of applying cottonseed and cottonseed meal to oats in 



fall and spring. 



NITROGENOUS FERTILIZER PER ACRE 



472 lbs. cottonseed (av. 2 plots) 



200 lbs. cottonseed meal 



472 lbs. cottonseed 



200 lbs. cottonseed meal 



When 

 applied 



Nov, 17 

 Nov. 17 

 March 4 

 March 4 



YIELD PER ACRE 



Grain Straw 



Bus. 

 15.7 



17.8 

 14.. 5 

 14.2 



Lbs. 

 834 

 969 

 730 

 775 



Positive conclusions are not warranted because all plots 

 in this sandy field were so severely injured by drought. 



It can scarcely be doubted that under normal conditions 

 cottonseed can be more profitably applied to oats in fall than 

 as a top dressing in spring. 



Observation, not however founded upon exact experiment, 

 leads to the belief that the same is true for cottonseed meal. 



An experiment comparing cottonseed, cottonseed meal, 

 and nitrate of soda as fertilizers for spring oats was begun in 

 1896, but the general failure of spring-sown oats rendered 

 valueless the data obtained in this test, as also that of experi- 

 ments relative to thickness of seeding and to effects of dif- 

 ferent phosphates on oats. 



CowPEAS AND Velvet Beans as Fertilizers foe Oats. 



On sandy soil in 1896 several plots were sown broadcast 

 with the Wonderful variety of cowpeas, and an adjacent plot 

 was sown broadcast with German millet. The German millet 

 was plowed under, as was also the pea vines, the peas having 

 been previously picked. 



