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between the individual plots so that the fertilizers applied 

 to one plot would not have any undue effect upon the 

 adjacent plots. 



Plot No. 1 was fertilized by the application of an acid 

 phosphate containing 14 per cent, available phosphoric 

 acid and 4 per cent, potash, this fertilizer being applied 

 at the rate of 300 pounds per acre. 



Products of Plots, 1906. 



Yields of Seed Cotton. 



Plot 1. Plot 3. Plot 4. 



930 lbs. 1, 284 lbs. 1, 776 lbs. 



The remaining three experimental plots of ten rows 

 each (covering an area of one-sixth acre each) were also 

 fertilized by the application of the same quantity of the 

 above mentioned acid phosphate containing potash, and, 

 in addition, Nitrate of Soda was applied to plots 2, 3 and 

 4 in the proportions of 42, 84 and 126 pounds per acre, 

 respectively, while no Nitrate or other form of Nitrogen 

 was applied to plot No. 1. 



