ABSTRACTS OF BULLETINS OF M AGRICI'LTURAL EXPERIMENT STATIONS 

 THE UNITED STATES FROM JANUARY TO JUNE, 1889. 



PART 1. 



AT^ABAMA. 



Agricultural Experiment Station of the Agricultural and Mechanical Col- 

 lege of Alabama. 

 Department of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama. 

 Location, Auburn. Director, J. S. Newman. 



BULLETIN NO. 3 (NEW SERIES), JANUARY, 1889. 



Report of Agriculturist, J. S. Newman (pp. 3-10.) 



Exiieriment icith corn (pp. 3, 4). — " The object of this experiment was 

 to inquire if corn could be grown profitably upon land which chemical 

 analysis classes as practically sterile." The soil is a sandy drift with 

 no clay within 3 feet of the surface. When the Station took charge of 

 it, it had been '^ worn out" and had grown up to stunted pines and 

 broom sedge. The season was very unfavorable. The chemical analysis 

 of the soil is given, and the product of 10 acres fertilized with compost 

 of cotton seed, stable manure, and English superphosphate (1,000 pounds 

 per acre) is compared with that of one acre of unfertilized soil of the 

 same quality. The net profit on the fertilized land was $5.56 j)er acre, 

 on the unfertilized $2.49. 



Experiment icith fertilizers on ground peas (p. 4). — This was under- 

 taken with the hope of discovering a remedy for the tendency of this 

 crop to produce faulty pods (pops) on sandy soil. Lime, superphos- 

 phates, kainit, cotton seed meal, singly and in combination, and com- 

 post were used. Air-slaked lime gave the largest per cent of good p^ as, 

 and "complete" fertilizers gave the smallest. 



Experiment with sweet potatoes (p. 5). — To compare the effects of dif- 

 ferent fertilizers. Results are given in tabular form. 



Fertilizers for turnips (pp. 5-7). — Trials were made with the Norfolk 

 variety of turnips on twenty-two plats. Superphosphate, raw phos- 

 phate, kainit, sulphate of ammonia, cotton-seed meal, and cotton- 

 seed-hull ash, singly and in various combinations, and cow and horse 



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