ABSTRACTS OF PUBLICATIONS OF THE AGIilCULTCRAL EXPEllIMENT STATIONS 

 IN THE L'MTED STATES. 



Alabama Canebrake Station, Bulletin No. 14, March, 1892 (pp. 10.) 



Cotton expekiments, W. Jl. Nkwman, M. S. — The results are 

 tabulated lor cottdu raised ou aere i»latsuiuler the following conditions: 

 On drained and undrained land manured with 2,(H)(> pounds of jireen 

 cotton seed per acre; on draine<l and undrained land without manure 

 and with 400 ]K)und8 of eott<»n-seed meal ])er acre; on drained land 

 manui'ed with L'OO and with K>0 jxtunds of cotton seed meal applied all 

 at one time and in separate p!)rtions; on imdiaincd lan<l previously 

 used for melilotus and for i)eas; on undrained land with IS tons of barn 

 yard manure ]>eracre; and on drained land chcclu'd 4 by 4 i'vct, (Uie stalk 

 to a hill. ''The increa.scd yield by the api)li(ation of a ton of seed (tn 

 the undrained laud was l."")*!.") ])ounds of lint cotton, which ]>aid for tho 

 cost of the seed and the costof a]>plication. The increased yield on the 

 drained land was only 40.0 jtonnds. # * * The acre in melilotus 

 produced 11. 4S pounds more see<l j'otton i)cr aere than the acre in jieas." 

 The barnyard manure "was about two thirds sawdust, which ])robably 

 l)revented a juolitable ell'ect." 



Tabulated notes are <iiven foi* 15 varieti«'S (tf cotton. Tlu' results of 

 tests with commercial fertilizers for cotton " v«'rilictl tlu' conclusions of 

 the last 5 years, that comnuMcial fertilizers arc not i>roHtably used upon 

 this class of soils." 



Arkansas Station, Fourth Annual Report, 1891 (pp. 16). 



This includes brief stalenuMits re.uardinu- the work of the station in 

 ditfereut lines, and a linancial report for the ILscal year ending .Inne .'.o. 

 1891. 



Arkansas Station, Bulletin No. 18, February, 1892 (pp. 16). 



Some cotton experiments, IJ. L. Bennett, B. S. (pi». ;'.-l."»). 



Cotton seed for fertiliziuf/ rs. selVnuj (pp. 3, 4). — This e\]teriment was 



designed to ascertain if it is not m(»i'e ]»rotitable to use cotton seed as a 



fertilizer than to sell it at $(».r»0 a ton dclivere<l, whi«'li is the jirice said 



to be paid in small t<»wns or those without t»il mills. l'i\c inindred 



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