Food for On light lands it will be good practice to apply Nitrate 



Pl>nts as a side-dressing about the middle of June. Good results 

 7* come from the use of it in this way on heavy types of land. 

 Where land does not produce a good stalk of cotton, and fer- 

 tilizers are used which contain only a moderate amount of 

 Nitrogen, or ammonia, good results are obtained from a side- 

 dressing of 50 to 100 pounds of Nitrate of Soda per acre. 

 The Nitrate .should be distributed along one side of the row, 

 or where there is a ridge in the middle it may be put on this, 

 and when the ridge is thrown out the Nitrate will be thrown 

 on two sides of the row. 



c The Alabama Agricultural Experi- 



Fertihzing c A i AI i L 



f-> rnent Station at Auburn, Alabama, has 



Cotton. . . . c 



made some interesting experiments in fer- 

 tilizing cotton. Experiments were conducted in many differ- 

 ent parts of the State and on various kinds of soil. 



It was noticed that in nearly every case 96 pounds 

 Nitrate of Soda, when used with acid phosphate, gave a 

 better yield than 240 pounds cotton-seed meal when used 

 with the same quantity of acid phosphate. The 240 pounds 

 of cotton-seed meal contained more Nitrogen than 96 pounds 

 of Nitrate, and cost more than the Nitrate, yet did not give, 

 as a rule, as good results. As a rule, potash did not pay, 

 except on sandy land. While the "no fertilizer" acre gave 

 only a small yield, the best results were obtained from the 

 combination of Nitrate, phosphate and potash, but where 

 the land was fairly good, the potash did not seem to be 

 necessary. 



Cotton-seed meal has been an economical source of 

 Nitrogen, but it tends to make the soil sour, stale and mouldy 

 Its use should never exclude the use of Nitrate Nitrogen, i.e., 

 Nitrate of Soda, at the rate of 100 pounds to the acre. 



Two hales of cotton may be made on the same land with 

 the same labor which now makes one. Nitrate of Soda fed 

 to growing crops at the right time repays its cost many times 

 over. 



