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Canebrake Agricultural Experiment Station. 



DcpurtmeHt of Agricultural and Mccliunical Vollcye of Alabama. 



Location, Uniontown. Director, J. S. Newman. 



BULLETIN No. 4, APRIL, ISSO. 



ExPERi:\rKNT.s Avrni cotton, W. H. Xew^ean, M. S. (pp. 3-7). — A 

 series of experiments was eoiul noted to observe the effects of manures 

 and different methods of cultivation. The residts, which are ex- 

 hibited in tabuhir form, are conflictino-. " It will require a series of 

 experiments conducted sufficiently hmg to secure average results 

 before reliable conclusions can be drawn.'' 



Meteorological observatioxs (p. 8). — A summary of observations 

 for January, February, and March, 1889. 



BULLETIN No. .5, JULY, 1889. 



Experiments with fertilizers ox oats, W. H. Xew:sian, M. S. 

 (pp. 3-7). — The experiments were conducted on ''what is known in 

 the Canebrake as black slough bottom," drained and undrained, to 

 observe the effects of fertilizers and of drainage. In the first series, 

 cotton-seed meal, raw phosphate, and cotton-seed hull ash; and in 

 the second, cotton-seed meal, green cotton seed, stable manure, and a 

 commercial fertilizer Avere used singly or in combination. The un- 

 drained land, lying lower down the slough, is naturally more fertile 

 than the drained. The actual yields, as shown by careful weighing 

 and measurements, were in a number of cases less with the fertilizers 

 than without them. In other cases there was an apparent increase 

 with the use of each of the fertilizing materials. There was no 

 duplication of plats on either the drained or the undrained land. 

 The data, therefore, do not show in how far the difference of yield 

 was due to unevenness of soil or other causes, including drought. 



Experiments were also made upon different methods of seeding and 

 different varieties. 



Experiments with wheat, W. H. Xewman, M. S. (pp. 7-10). — 

 These were made with one variety on " shell ridge " land and with 

 different varieties on slough bottom, and were somewhat similar in 

 plan and results to those with oats. It is noticeable that the yield 

 with cotton-seed-hull ashes and cotton-seed meal was less than with 

 cotton and meal alone on both the drained and the undrained land. 



Meteorological report (pp. 11-14). — The temperature and rain- 

 fall from October 1, 1888, to June 30, 1889, are reported. Brief 

 observations were made upon the rain-fall on 3 acres of drained land, 

 and the outflow from the drains. October 22 to 25, 3.7 inches of rain 

 fell, of which it was roughly estimated that 68 per cent ran out of the 

 drains between October 24 and October 30. April 13 to 15, 3.42 

 inches of rain fell, of which 2:5 per cent seems to have been withdrawn 

 through the drain. The promptness with Avhich drains removed sur- 

 plus water from such a tenacious soil is worthy of notice. 



