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Plot 14. Phosphate plus muriate of potash; 98%, the number per 
plant running as high as forty-five, mainly on small roots away from 
main stem, sometimes on main stem, mostly small nodules. 
Plot 15. No fertilizer; 82%, practically all small, some like fish 
eggs and widely scattered over root systems. 
Plot 16. An abundance of lime; 20% bearing nodules. 
Plot 17. One-half ton of wood ashes per acre; 10% bearing nodules. 
No lesson could possibly be drawn from the experiment as results are 
not at all concordant. 
Pea roots from Chatham Station. 
REPORT ON THE INFLUENCE OF FERTILIZERS AND INOCULATION ON THE 
NUMBER OF NODULES ON THE ROOTS OF COWPEAS. 
Twenty-two rows of cowpeas, seed not sterilized were sown north 
and south in the southeast corner of No. 6. The length of the rows 
was ten rods. The north two rods had an application of nitrate of 
soda at the rate of 150 pounds per acre. The second two rods from 
the north had an application of treated South Carolina rock at a rate 
sufficient to equal 200 pounds of fertilizer 8% phosphoric acid. The 
third two rods had an application of muriate of potash at the rate of 
100 pounds per acre. The fourth two rods had wood ashes at the 
rate of 1,000 pounds per acre. The south two rods had lime, amount 
not stated. 
