5G 



Montgomery County, 7 Miles East of Montgo:\iery. 

 Thos; W. Oliver, 1907. (See Table, p. 52.) 



Red sandy soil 4 to in deep; red clay suhsoil. 



The field had b<?eii cleared perhaps 70 years before. The 

 original growth was reported as short leaf pine and oak. 



The season was unfavorable, the spring being very wet 

 and the late summer very dry and hot. 



A complete fertilizer, especially the one on plot 10, was 

 the most profitable. 



Lbs. 



Average yield of seed cotton per acre, unfertilized 596 



Increase of seed cotton when cotton seed meal was added: 



To unfertilized plot 112 



To acid phosphate plot 84 



To kainit plot 228 



To acid phosphate and kainit plot 191 



Average increase with cotton seed meal 154 



Increase of seed cotton per acre when acid phosphate was added: 



To unfertilized plot 32 



To cotton seed meal plot 4 



To kainit plot 139 



To cotton seed meal and kainit plot 102 



Average increase with acid phosphate 69 



Increase of seed cotton per acre when kainit was added: 



To unfertilized plot — 66 



To cotton seed meal plot 50 



To acid phosphate plot 41 



To cotton seed meal and acid phosphate plot 148 



Average increase ivith kainit 43 



