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PEAS — POTATOES. 



SHOWING THE EFFECT OF POTASH-PHOSPHATE FERTILIZATION ON COW PEAS, 

 EXPERIMENT FARM, SOUTHERN PINES, NORTH CAROLINA. 



NORTH CAROLINA, 1882. 



By C. W. Dabney, Director. Fifth Annual Report. 



"Kainit and peas together are undoubtedly the most promising 

 agents we know of for improving our Southern soils. They seem pe- 

 culiarly adapted to these soils and go together. . . . Mr. A. T. 

 McCallum, Robeson County, compared the effects of ammoniated super- 

 phosphate and kainit. He does not give us the figures, but says: 

 *The plot on which I used kainit made twice as many peas as any one 

 of the others. You could tell very plainly to the very row where the 

 kainit commenced by the peas. Kainit is certainly a god-send to the 

 cotton farmer." 



POTATOES. 



CONNECTICUT (Storrs' Station), 1891. 



Experiment by the Station. Fourth Annual Report. 



"In the experiment of 1891, the potatoes responded decidedly to 

 potash. On all the plots where this ingredient was used, the vines were 

 heavier throughout the season, remained greener longer, and gave 

 much larger yields than plots which received no potash. Phosphoric 



