ABSTRACTS OF PUBLICATIONS OF THE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATIONS IN 



THE UNITED STATES. 



Alabama College Station, Third Annual Report, 1890 (pp. 19). 



This includes the reports of tlie treasurer, director, chemist, botanist 

 and meteorologist, and biologist, which contain summaries of bulletins, 

 and outlines of the work of the station. 



Alabama Canehrake Station, Bulletin No. 11, February, 1891 (pp. 10). 



Experiments with cotton in 1890, W. H. Newman, M. S, 



Experiments with fertilizers on '^hlaclc slougW'' bottom-land. — This is 

 an account of an experiment with cotton on 11 tifteenth-acre plats of 

 black slough bottom-land : sulphate of ammonia 90 pounds, dissolved 

 bone-black 195 pounds, kaiuit 150 pounds, and floats 300 pounds per 

 acre, being applied singly or in combination on nine plats, two plats 

 remaining unmanured. The previous year the land had been used for 

 wheat and received no fertilizers. The yields of cotton on each plat are 

 tabulated. "These results simply repeat the indications plainly 

 presented for the last 5 years, viz., that commercial fertilizers are not 

 profitably used upon this class of soil." 



Experiments with cotton- seed meal on red prairie land. — Of 2 sixth-acre 

 plats used for cotton one received 400 pounds of cotton seed meal per 

 acre and the other received no fertilizer. The land had been used for 

 oats and peas the previous season. The unmanured plat produced 7.9 

 pounds more lint and 9.44 pounds more total crop than the plat receiving 

 cotton-seed meal. 



Experiments icith various fertilizers. — Twelve one-acre plats used for 

 cotton were treated as follows : 2,000 pounds of cotton seed and 400 

 pounds of cotton-seed meal were each applied on one drained and one 

 undrained plat; 200 pounds of cotton-seed meal in one application, 200 

 pounds before planting and 200 pounds later, and 18 tons of stable 

 manure (about two thirds sawdust) were each applied to one plat; 

 two plats had a previous 2 years' green manuring, one with pea vines 

 and one with melilotus ; one plat, which had been used as a garden for 

 4 years, received 400 pounds of cotton-seed meal ; and two plats, one 

 drained and one undrained, remained unmanured. 

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