126 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE. 



tilizers are used, coating $60 per ton, paying in cotton at 15 cents per pound. Taylor : 

 100 pounds used to the acre, at an average cost of about 425 pounds of lint-cotton per 

 ton. Thomas: 150 to '200 pounds per acre. Terrell: 45 different kinds used, at an 

 avernge of 109 pounds to the acre. Washington : From 100 to 300 pounds per acre. 

 Wahon : 150 to 200 pounds per acre ; price from $40 to $70 per ton, payable in cotton 

 at 15 cents per pound, mikes : Various kinds used ; cost of guaoo from $40 to $60 per 

 ton, and from $20 to $35 for compovSting fertilizers. Wilcox : 100 to 200 hundred 

 pounds of guano per acre, costing from $50 to $G5 per ton. Whitfield : Various kinds, 

 at an average. White : Stable-manure generally used. 



Florida. — Clay: All use compost. Gadsden: Commercial fertilizers have been 

 nearly abandoned on account of adulteration, and increased attention jiaid to the 

 production of domestic manures. Illlhborongh : Farmers are beginning to look to the 

 barn-yard for fertilizers. Jackson : 200 pounds applied to the acre ; cost $55 per ton. 

 Madison : Cotton-seed and stable-manure ; from 30 to 50 bushels of cotton-seed per acre, 

 worth from $3 to $10 per ton. Sumter : Swamp-muck chiefly. Santa Eosa : Fertil- 

 izers are used to a greater extent than formerly ; cotton-seed meal, in combination 

 with mineral salts, is the most valuable ; from 100 to 300 pounds to the acre ; cost 

 $45 per ton. 



Alabama. — Bibb: 100 pounds per acre. Bullock: The use of commercial fertilizers 

 almost entirely abandoned. Cotton-seed and home-made manures are generally used. 

 From 50 to 100 bushels of cotton-seed applied to the acre ; worth 10 cents per bushel. 

 Butler : About 200 j)0und8 per acre ; cost $55 per ton. Calhoun : Both commercial and 

 home-made are used, at a cost of $2 to $S per acre. Many farmers purchase chemiofl.ls 

 and make their own fertilizers, at a cost of $20 per ton. Clay : The various kinds used. 

 Coffee : But little except stable-manure anel litter of cow-lots. Conecuh : Cottou-sced is 

 used to some extent ; 15 to 25 bushels per acre ; iirice 12^ cents per bushel. Crenshaw : 

 On a few farms ; from 100 to 200 pounds per acre ; cost from $00 to $70 per ton. De 

 Kalb: Commercial fertilizers are used, at a cost 6f $6 to $6 per aero; price from $50 

 to $75 per ton. Elmore : They use 150 jjounds per acre ; price $55 per ton. Etowah : 

 166 pounds per acre; cost $60 to $75 per ton. Geneva: Home-made fertilizers chiefly 

 used. Straw and leaves, alter being tramped up, are applied in the drill for cotton 

 and in the hill for corn. Most farmers plant less and manure more than foimerly 

 Hale: Cotton-seed and barn-yard manure. Henry: An average of 125 pounds per 

 acre. Jefferson: Home-made fertilizers much used. They have paid fronr 50 to 100 

 per cent, this year by bringing the crop forward from ten to fifteen days earlier. Lau- 

 derdale: Every farmer is making all the home-made manures possible. Marion: Barn- 

 yard manures, 20 bushels per acre ; price 10 cents per bushel. Morgan : Very few 

 except home fertilizers used, at the small cost of $5 per ton. Pike : Three-fourths used 

 are home-made fertilizers. Russell : 200 pounds per acre. Shelby : Barn-yard manures 

 used on one-fifth of the farms. Guano is used ou about one-twelfth of the farms — 180 

 pounds to the acre; cost $60 per ton. Saint Clair : All kinds used ; many farmers pre- 

 pare a compost of barn-yard manure, litter, and cotton-seed. 300 pounds of guano 

 is usually applied to the acre ; price $60 per ton ; paid for with cotton at 15 cents per 

 pound. Sumter : 200 pounds per acre; price $55 per ton. 



Mississippi. — Adams : Cotton-seed and barn-yard are the only fertilizers used ; cost 

 65 cents per acre. Alcorn : Barn-yard manure almost exclusively used, and all utilized. 

 Amite : Chiefly home fertilizers used ; cotton-seed, 40 bushels per acre ; barn-yard, 60 

 to 80 bushels per acre. Carroll : The only fertilizer used is cotton-seed on corn-land. 

 Choctaiv : Cotton-seed and barn-yard manure ; 10 bushels of cotton-seed per acre, worth 

 10 cents per bushel. Copiah : A very few use 100 to 200 pounds per acre of Stern's 

 phosphate, bone, &c. Covington : Home-made compost of straw, leaves, ashes, and 

 barn-yard manure is thoouly fertilizer used. Franklin: Cotton-seed the only fertilizer 

 used ; 20 bushels applied to the acre. Grenada : Cotton-seed and stable-manure used 

 on nearly all farms ; no commercial. HaiTison : Cotton-seed meal is used as a fertil- 

 izer for corn ; cost $30 per ton. Lawrence : Cotton-seed chiefly ; worth from 10 to 15 

 cents per bushel. Lincoln : None except what are made on the farm. Lowndes : Com- 

 mercial fertilizers have been used, but results have been unsatisfactory. Madison : 

 Cotton-seed only. Marion : About 500 pounds per acre of superphosphate ; cost $20 

 per ton. Newton : Dissolved bones need ; 100 pounds per acre ; price $60 per ton. Ne- 

 shoba: Barn-yard manures only. I'erry: To a small extent; 500 i)ound3 per acre 

 of cotton-seed meal is applied, costing from $30 to $35 per ton. Small farmers save all 

 their stable and barn-yard manure and apply it in about the same ([uantity )vr acre. 

 Winston: None used except stablc-manaro and cotton-seed ; 30 to 40 bushel.t ' • 'tt.on- 

 eeed to the acrp worth 12^ ceuis per bushel. 



Louisiana. — But few counties report the use of any fertilizers, and those ouiy auch 

 as are found on the plantation. Bossier : One-third of the farmers use cotton-seed, 60 

 bnshels, worth from 8 to 10 cents per bushel; manures one acre of corn in the hill. 

 Cameron : They are beginning to spread the cotton-seed on the land they cultivate ; 

 formerly it was left to rot at the gin or burned for fuel. Union : On plantations whore 

 cotton is grown, from 20 to 25 bushels of cotton-seed per acre is generally applied. 



