94 FIELD CROPS FOR THE COTTON-BELT 



"Louisiana and other parts of the South where the soil 

 is rich in available potash:" 



150-200 pounds cotton-seed meal | , 

 150-200 pounds acid phosphate J t( 



The Georgia Experiment Station recommends the follow- 

 ing fertilizer for cotton on old, worn uplands: 



Acid phosphate 1000 pounds 1 



Cotton-seed meal 671 pounds I 400 to 800 pounds to the acre. 



Kainit 296 pounds J 



For the sandy soils of east Texas, the Texas Experiment 

 Station recommends the following fertilizer : 



100 pounds of 16 per cent acid phosphate 1 , 

 200 pounds of cotton-seed meal J t( 



On extremely sandy soils, from 50 to 75 pounds of muriate 

 of potash or 200 pounds of kainit should be added to the 

 fertilizer mixture. 



FARM MANURES FOR COTTON 



The cotton farmer, as a rule, uses very little farm 

 manure. The chief reason for this is that on the average 

 cotton farm, very little stock is kept other than the work 

 stock necessary to produce the cotton. The limited supply 

 of manure produced is often allowed to go to waste or is so 

 improperly managed as to be of very inferior quality. 



106. Stable manure for cotton. Notwithstanding 

 the limited use of stable -manure by cotton-growers, farm 

 experience and experiments have rendered unquestionable 

 the high value of this material when used in connection 

 with proper systems of cotton production. It lends itself 

 most readily to those systems in which cotton is produced 

 in rotation with other crops. In such cases the manure 



