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or 2,000 pounds (175 pounds nitrogen). The same thing 

 was true of equivalent quantities of castor pomace. 



2. We found no advantage in using nitrate of soda in con- 

 nection with cotton-seed meal or castor pomace. 



3. As to comparative value of cotton-seed meal and cas- 

 tor pomace, we got slightly larger yields from castor pom- 

 ace, but not quite as good a quality. The difference in this 

 respect was not large. We put on both fertilizers not long 

 before setting time. Some advocates of pomace say it 

 should be ploughed under lightly some time earlier, being 

 rather slower to decay than cotton seed. 



4. In four years' tests linseed meal gave a somewhat 

 smaller yield than either cotton seed or pomace, but de- 

 cidedly better quality. 



5. Dry fish, in a four years' test, gave a much smaller 

 yield than cotton-seed meal, by 250 pounds to the acre, and 

 a smaller percentage of wrappers, so that its use was un- 

 profitable ; but yet the quality of the wrappers was excel- 

 lent, — better even than that of those raised on cotton-seed 

 meal. 



6. Stable manure, at the rate of 10 to 12 cords per acre, 

 was tested for four years, and also stems, at the rate of 

 6,000 pounds per acre, and for the last two years of experi- 

 ment 500 pounds of Swift Sure superphosphate were used 

 with each as a starter. 



The results are not strictly comparable with those on 

 plots where meal or pomace was used, because these last 

 were cultivated for five years and the plots with manure 

 and stems for only four years ; 6,000 pounds of stems 

 carry about 111 pounds of nitrogen, 36 of phosphoric acid 

 and 486 pounds of potash. 



The yield of tobacco from the plot which was dressed 

 with stems was about the average of the other plots, and 

 its quality about like that of tobacco from a plot which was 

 dressed with 1,500 pounds of cotton-seed meal and 1,200 

 of cotton-hull ashes. 



Ten to twelve cords of stable manure carried about 111 

 pounds of nitrogen, 7 1 of phosphoric acid and 149 pounds 

 of potash. The yield of tobacco from this was scant, — 

 about 250 pounds to the acre, less than the average of all 



