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and the leaves, though healthy and not at all spotted, had a 

 peculiar yellowish green cast, indicating lack of nitrogen. 

 The muriate of potash plot was in exactly the same condition. 

 It was impossible to note any difference between them. Both 

 the muriate, kainit and check plots were found to be shedding 

 the bolls of the top crop very badly. 



Plot 3, with the complete fertilizer, was by far the best 

 of the lot. The plants were tall and well branched, and were 

 very heavily fruited. They were also setting a heavy top 

 crop, with no sign of shedding the bolls. The foliage was 

 green and luxuriant. 



On September 5 the check rows were almost entirely bare 

 of leaves, and the crop so poor as to be hardly worth picking. 

 The kainit and muriate plots were still perfectly green and 

 healthy. A few of the plants with the complete fertilizer 

 were showing some spotted leaves, but the plot as a whole was 

 in splendid condition, and was opening a crop that was esti- 

 mated by good judges at fully a bale to the acre. 



This experiment was very interesting as showing the 

 marked effect of the potash fertilizers in preventing rust in 

 this old worn-out, sandy land. It also fully corroborated the 

 result on the Station Farm obtained with the muriate of pot- 

 ash. The same thing was noted again later in the season on 

 the farm of the District Agricultural School at Albertville 

 where, in a fertilizer experiment, muriate and sulphate of 

 potash were used in comparison with kainit. All three 

 seemed to have a similar effect in preserving the foliage. It 

 seems, therefore, safe to say that one pound of muriate of 

 potash will equal four pounds of kainit in preventing rust. 

 At most interior points the muriate will, therefore, be the 

 cheaper of the two to use. The most unexpected result of 

 this experiment was the getting so fine a crop from land of 

 this particular character on the complete fertilizer plot by the 

 use of commercial fertilizers alone. Like some of the sandy 

 lands near the coast, this particular soil seemed to have a good 

 water-holding capacity, and the rains were fairly seasonable. 

 It can hardly be expected that this result could be duplicated 

 in a season so unfavorable as that of 1897. 



