436 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



With strawberries, 200 lbs. of cotton-seed meal, 200 lbs. of acid phosphate, 

 and 100 lbs. of kainit were used as the unit application per acre as in the previ- 

 ous year. With this formula the yield of berries was 2,440 qts. per acre. 

 When the cotton-seed meal and kainit were reduced one-half, the acid phos- 

 phate remaining as before, the yield was only 1,950 qts. per acre. Other com- 

 binations gave slight variations. The check plat yielded at the rate of 2,205 

 qts. per acre. The marketing of strawberries, principally at near-by cities, con- 

 tinues to be profitable. There were sold 199.5 24-qt. cases, which brought the 

 shippers net returns of $426.25. 



The fertilizer work with peaches was continued, but owing to the late spring 

 freeze no satisfactory results were obtained. Owing to an outbreak of the San 

 Jose scale all the trees in the variety orchard and in a commercial orchard 

 planted to Greensboro peaches have been dug up and burned. 



In the test with asparagus, nitrate of soda was used in the place of cotton 

 seed. A mixture of 250 lbs. of cotton-seed meal, 125 lbs. of nitrate of soda, 

 405 lbs. of acid phosphate, and 170 lbs. of kainit was taken as the unit applica- 

 tion per acre, and this formula gave a calculated yield of 1,396 lbs. of market- 

 able asparagus per acre. When this formula was changed by either cutting 

 down or omitting- any of the ingredients, as well as when the unit application 

 was doubled, the yield per acre was reduced. The check plat gave 952 lbs. per 

 acre. It is thought that 1 row of the plat where the unit formula was 

 used was favorably aifected by manure applied to neighboring rose bushes. 

 From the entire acreage devoted to this crop, 49^ boxes or 990 bunches were 

 sold, netting $93.35. Chicago proved to be the best market. 



The data secured with cabbage are also given, but the yields were unsatis- 

 factory owing to the diseased condition of the plants, and the crop from the 

 fertilized plats proved useless for market purposes. In addition to the plats 

 included in the fertilizer test, an acre of land fertilize with 1,500 lbs. of de- 

 composed cotton seed applied in the drill and listed upon, together with a 

 mixture of 2 parts of acid phosphate and 1 part of cotton-seed meal applied 

 at the rate of 1,000 lbs. per acre on top of the list and harrowed in, was planted 

 with Jersey Wakefield cabbage on February 13. The plants were subsequently 

 given two top dressings of nitrate of soda at the rate of 50 lbs. per acre each, 

 and a fair yield of first-class heads was secured. Sixty-four crates netted 

 $119.80, but the remaining 26 crates netted only $4.05 as they reached the 

 market in poor condition. Some work was done in the fall planting of cabbage. 

 With plants set out September 28, 1905, marketing began January 11, $40 

 worth of cabbage being sold from 0.22 of an acre. Cabbage set out in the fall 

 of 1906, which survived the unfavorable planting season, made some good 

 heads ready for market at Christmas. When well rooted the plants seemed to 

 stand the lowest winter temperatures without injury, and when planted early 

 in December it is stated that they not only make larger yields but sell for much 

 better prices than when planted in February. The soils are so mellow that 

 young cabbage plants have been successfully covered with dirt and carried 

 through severe cold spells. 



In the work with beans a mixture of 225 lbs. of cotton-seed meal, 112 lbs. of 

 nitrate of soda, 456 lbs. of acid phosphate, and 200 lbs. of kainit per acre gave 

 a calculated yield per acre of 1.30.6 bu. of beans on natural or unparked soil, 

 and of 106.6 bu. on the parked area. When the kainit was omitted the results 

 were 124.8 bu. on the natural soil and 118.7 bu. on the parked soil. With the 

 exception of 1 year, beans have not proven a profitable shipping crop. 



In the fertilizer test with Irish potatoes all yields are noted as too poor 

 and irregular to be worth reporting. In a variety test. Triumph gave per 



