FERTILIZERS FOR THE VARIOUS TOBACCO REGIONS 463 



where the Zimmer Spanish variety is grown for filler. Good results 

 are obtained in using as much as 1000 pounds per acre of a mixture 

 analyzing nine per cent phosphoric acid, four per cent nitrogen and 

 eight per cent potash. Stable manure gives good results, too. 



The Cuban variety, which is grown mainly in southern Georgia 

 and Florida for filler leaf, is fertilized heavily. The land should 

 have fifteen to twenty loads of stable manure applied in the fall and 

 should be plowed. A good fertilizer mixture to apply broadcast in 

 the spring before setting the plants is 600 to 800 pounds of cotton- 

 seed meal, 400 pounds of acid phosphate, and 200 pounds of sulfate 

 of potash per acre. This should be harrowed in the soil before 

 marking off the rows. 



White Burley tobacco is grown on the best land of the farm, as 

 a rule, and is not fertilized. For this reason fertilizer formulae are 

 not well worked out. 



In the dark tobacco district of Kentucky and Tennessee fertilizer 

 is used rather generally, but in comparatively light applications. 

 Frequently from 75 to 125 pounds per acre are dropped in the hills 

 and this is all that is used. This may be a high-grade mixture, 

 analyzing something like eight per cent of phosphoric acid, three or 

 four per cent of nitrogen and six or eight per cent of potash. A 

 mixture that has given very profitable results in the Clarksville 

 district consists of 300 pounds high-grade acid phosphate, 400 

 pounds cottonseed meal and 50 pounds sulfate of potash. This 

 is a good application per acre. It should all be spread broadcast 

 and worked into the soil before marking off the rows. However, 

 seventy-five pounds per acre in the hill are permissible and may be an 

 advantage in starting the plants. Stable manure gives good results. 

 Four to six tons per acre may be applied in the winter or early 

 spring and plowed under as the land is being prepared. 



Liberal applications of commercial fertilizer are used in produc- 

 ing the flue-cured tobacco of the Carolinas and Virginia. Where 

 the soil is light and only moderately fertile a good formula is 500 

 pounds each of cottonseed meal and acid phosphate and 120 pounds 

 of sulfate of potash. 



The Maryland type is produced with light applications of com- 

 mercial fertilizers. Stable manure gives good results. 



