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all places, it seems to me that they hold 
out suggestions which, if followed, would 
reduce the expense of growing and fer¬ 
tilizing this crop. 
The crop would, in my opinion, have 
been better and the yield would have 
been heavier, had it not been for dry 
weather, though it was not an abnor¬ 
mally dry season. 
DISCUSSION. 
Mr. White—The potato experiments 
were absolutely contrary in result to 
mine. We require a fertilizer heavier 
and heavier every year, and I believe 
perhaps it might account for it that the 
soil conditions were such that you could 
not use as large amounts of fertilizer. 
Prof. Stockbridge—The explanation 
perhaps lies in the fact that you are in¬ 
creasing your total application without 
increasing the balanced condition of the 
ingredients. You do not state the total 
application that you found unprofitable. 
What is your total application? 
Mr. White—Our mixture starts with 
600 pounds cotton seed meal, 600 
pounds of acid phosphate, 250 pounds 
potash. My application this year was 
about 700 pounds cotton seed meal, 800 
pounds acid phosphate, 300 pounds sul¬ 
phate of potash. On my experimental 
plot my yield this year was not large at 
all, and in fact the yield was nowhere 
very large, only about twenty-seven bar¬ 
rels to the acre. 
Prof. Stockbridge—My tests were in¬ 
tentionally made upon new land that I 
might be sure there were no varying 
conditions preceding the planting of the 
crop. Therefore, under those circum¬ 
stances, it would be profitable to use a 
total application such as would be re¬ 
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quired by the deterioration of the land. 
Mr. White—We are working for 
early potatoes. Now, the earliest crop 
that I know of is that shipped as green 
potatoes. I know of potatoes planted 
February 6th being dug on the 20th 
of April, and being dug because they 
had the blight so bad we did not dare 
leave them in the ground, and we made 
forty barrels per acre. We used 1000 
pounds cotton seed meal, 1000 pounds 
acid phosphate, 250 pounds potash, 
three acres to the patch, and had forty 
barrels to the acre. 
Dr. Kerr—I would like to ask the gen¬ 
tleman if he heard the report upon or¬ 
anges that were shipped from this State 
in such a condition that they were un¬ 
saleable when they arrived in market? 
I would like to ask if there would be 
any danger in shipping potatoes, that 
they might be in the same condition? 
Mr. White—When the market gets so 
chat it demands the green potatoes, we 
furnish them. 
Dr. Kerr—Would you ship a potato 
to me to eat that you would not eat 
yourself? 
Mr. White—If you would offer me 
eight or nine dollars for potatoes that 
I would not eat myself, you could have 
my whole crop. 
Dr. Kerr—I don’t know what I am 
getting until I get your potatoes and I 
am stuck. 
Mr. White—As to the applications of 
this fertilizer—whether they were made 
directly, whether the potatoes had an 
opportunity to take up all the fertilizer 
—how about that? 
Prof. Stockbridge—The application in 
each case was made at two different 
times, the first in the furrows, the second 
broadcast. 
