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with 110 manure. The tabuhited results as in previous experiments here 

 indicate that i)hosphoric acid in small quantities may be profitably 

 applied to this soil. 



l^ipecial imtash experiments. — Cotton-seed meal and hull ashes, meal 

 ])hosphate (cottoo-seed meal and acid phosphate), kainit, and muriate 

 and sulphate of potash were used alone and in various combinations, 

 and compared with no manure. Tiie tabulated results indicate that 

 potash if used at all should be applied "in very small quantities and 

 combined with other manures." 



Proper depth for apph/inrj fertilizers for cotton (pp. 185-187). — As in 

 1889, the questions considered were : (1) At what depth are fertilizers 

 most available for cotton ? (2) Is it best to apply the fertilizing ingre- 

 dients separately and at different depths ? The results agreed with 

 those of the previous year in indicating that a depth of 2 or 3 inches is 

 the best one at which to apply "complete" fertilizers on this soil. 



Tests of varieties of cotton (pp. 187-190). — Tabulated data are given 

 for 37 varieties. " Jones's Improved gives the largest yield of seed cot- 

 ton per acre, followed closely by Grayson's Early Prolific, Peterkin, 

 Oats, Allen's Long Staple, Little Brannon, and Tennessee Silk. Peter- 

 kin gives the largest yield of lint per acre, followed by Jones's Improved, 

 Little Brannon, Bancroft's Herlong, Grayson's Early Prolific, Texas 

 Storm and Drought-Proof, John O. Morris's, Tennessee Gold Dust, etc. 

 The best per cent of lint is from Deering Small Seed, Peterkin, W. B. 

 Ethridge Small Seed, Texas Storm and Drought-Proof, etc." 



Distance of planting (pp. 190, 191). — Tabulated data for nine plats on 

 which cotton was planted in drill at different distances. As in 1889 the 

 best results were with two stalks 16 inches and two stalks 12 inches. 



Effect ofmorethan one application of nitrogen for cotton (pp. 191-193). — 

 Various fertilizers containing nitrogen were applied once, twice, or three 

 times during the same season. The tabulated results, as in 1889, indi- 

 cate that little eflfect was produced by the second and third applica- 

 tions. 



Field experiments icith corn (pp. 193-200). — As in 1889 these include 

 experiments with fertilizers and tests of varieties. The former were 

 similar to those with cotton above cited and the results in general 

 pointed in the same directions as in the case of cotton. Tabulated 

 data are given for 25 varieties of corn. 



Experiments icith forage plants, sorghum, sweet-potatoes, sugarcane, 

 etc. (pp. 200-213). — Brief accounts are given of tests of teosinte, pearl 

 millet, Kaffir corn, millo maize, dhoura, Egyptian rice corn, German 

 and Golden Wonder millet, Japanese buckwheat, beggar weed {Des- 

 modium molle), white lupine, soja bean, cow-peaS; pea-nuts, and several 

 early varieties of sorghum. 



A fertilizer experiment with sweet-potatoes is also briefly reported. 



Analyses of samples of sugar-cane raised at the station for experiments 

 in sugar making. — "From 1.5 acres of ground 2,400 jjounds of sugar and 



