34 Growing Sea Island Cotton Under Florida Conditions 



Fig. 10. Unfertilized cotton, left, and fertilized cotton, right, of the WPA 

 fertilizer, spacing and topping test, Madison county, 193 6. Both 

 plats were planted at the same time and cultivated alike. The 

 fertilized cotton not only made a much higher yield, but matured 

 the bulk of its crop ten days or more earlier than the unfertilized 

 cotton. 



