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PLOT 2. 



COTTON. 



Intercultural Experiments with Fertilizers. 



The object of this experiment was to ascertain whether 

 or not, it would pay to apply nitrogenous fertilizers inter- 

 culturally. 



For this purpose, a piece of sandy upland of medium 

 fertility was selected, and made into plots of 1-10 of an acre 

 each. Rows were laid off, 210 feet long by 3^ feet wide. 



Just before planting, the following mixture of fertilizers 

 was applied to each plot alike, at the rate of 200 pounds 

 per acre : 200 lbs. acid phosphate, 66 lbs. muriate potash 

 and 66 lbs. sulphate ammonia. Soon after the cotton came 

 up, it was chopped, and then sided with heel-scrape. The 

 stalks of cotton were counted in each row and the same 

 number allowed to stand on each plot. 



On June 16th, cotton seed meal and nitrate soda, in differ- 

 ent quantities, were applied broad-cast, at which time the 

 cotton was plowed with heel-scrape. 



From observations made during the latter part of June, 

 the plots fertilized interculturally began to show a little 

 difference, and by the time the second application was made, 

 the difference was quite marked in favor of the fertilizers. 

 Further observations later on showed a still greater and 



