

Xaines of Varieties. 



Pounds Poiiiuls 



yield per yield pei- 



acre green acre cured 



Tobacco. I Tobacco. 



Type. 



3 



5 



6 



7 



9 



10 



11 



12 



14 



Conqueror 



Hester 



Hyco 



Long Leaf (.Joocli 



Yellow Orinoco 



White Stem Orinoco. 



Burley 



Gold Finder. 



Yellow Pryor 



5901.0 

 8366.4 

 8484.0 

 6699 

 6913.2 

 TTlii 6 

 5985 

 3746 4 

 3234.0 



Plug 



The soil on wliicli the second experiment was made, is 

 upland and known as white sandj soil, vevv poor without 

 the aid of fertilizers. On this the plants were set, three 

 feet apart on rows three feet wide. 



The first application of manure was in shovel furrows laid 

 off three feet apart, stable manure at the rate of five thous- 

 and i)ounds per acre was applied in the drill, then, in the 

 same furrow, at the rate of five Inindred pounds per acre, 

 the following fertilizers in this proportion : sixty-six pounds 

 sulphate of ammonia, sixty-six pounds nitrate of soda and 

 two hundred pounds acid phosphate. A scooter furrow was 

 then run in this fertilized furroAV, mixing the fertilizer and 

 soil, it Avas then bedded with the Dixie plow. 



The table on next page shows the yield from light sandy 

 soil Tipland. Rows were three feet apart and plants were 

 set three feet apart: 



