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seed meal the Georgia Station during three years obtained slightly 

 greater yields of seed cotton by bedding on the fertilizer two 

 weeks in advance of planting than by applying it with the seed. 

 The practise is to open the center where the row of cotton is to 

 be with a double mold board plow, locally called a "middle 

 buster." In this furrow the fertilizer is distributed, after 

 which the ridges or beds are formed. Rather less yields were 

 obtained by applying half the fertilizers two months after plant- 

 ing, when the nitrogen was derived from cotton-seed meal, and 

 rather more when nitrogen was derived from nitrate of soda. 1 



The Alabama Station has not found any greater yields from 

 fractional applications of fertilizers, but when the supply of 

 nitrogenous fertilizers was inadequate at planting, nitrate of 

 soda applied as late as the middle of July, and cotton-seed meal, 

 applied in the latter part of June, have produced favorable re- 

 sults. 



444. COLLATERAL READING. IT. C. White: The Manuring of Cotton. In 

 U. S. Dept. Agr., Office of Experiment Stations Bui. No. 33 (1896), pp. 169-195, 



i Georgia Sta. Bui. No. 70 (1905), p. 77. 



