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The ]'li!!(<$ii|ii)y nf fretting. A farmer ill the upland section o? Sou Hi Carolina writes. "1 would like you to <\piai? a matter ilia: lias Ions: puzzled n:o. IIoiv oil our hills, if we apply too heavy an applieniion of commercial fertilizers it may tin more harm than good by manuring the plants, but tiov.-n in the coast country, both in your State and ours, the cotton fanners apply heavy applications of high grade commercial fertilizers aud make big crops of cotton. If the men in Marlboro and Marion can do this, and :.s muersiauu m mhiw mitions of >oi i! Carolina a< well. why is it that it will :i??t do ln-r.-V" Those questions are the kiml we like to pret. Alt is true that in this State in parts of Eastern North Carolina, and no doubt in the sections of your own State, the farmers do apply fertilizers to the cotton crop hi what would be a lavish way in other sections. About Laurinbttrg it is a common practice to use G0<? to SOO pounds of fertilizer petacre. Tli" same application on a thin old upland field would particularly in a dry season, produce had results in the cotton crop. In the sections wher* heavy fertilizing is practiced you will find that the soil is not only level, but moist and dark with decayed organic matter. Ou the upland soil, which has been year after year cultivated in cotton. ?f no /,. Hannroil lilt* UWU ilUiUUUl Ul iiuiu?.7 vi UVVU,.V? organic matter lias been burned out of the soil. Heavy application of fertil izers alone Is not tlie tliinp for these soils, and in order that we may be able to use commercial fertilizers more lavishly and profitably these soils must be farmed differently. While 0:1 the low black soils farmers can prow cotton year after year with the liberal use of commercial fertilizers, because of the larpc amount of the moisture-retaininp humus their soil contains, the upland farmer :? more con:pell.d to farm in a prep. ; rotation. It will not do to assume that hecause certain fertilizer formula has given o:. client results in Eastern North and South Carolina that the same formula, will be the best for the same crop in the upland country. Years ago iu discussing the fertilizing of the soil at a Farmers' Institute ;u an Eastern North Carolina County. I was struck with the unanimity with which rhe best farmers present agreed that they couM get no profitable results from the use of phosphoric acid on their soils <n the proportions it is usually found in commercial fertilizers. but that nitrogen and potash always gave good results. We were disposed to doubt their results, but subsequent investigations of a perfectly . accurate nature have shown that this | is true of their lauds and of all tlie section where phosphatic rock is found, and it is evident that for that section at least the ordinary factorymixed fertilizers are not correctly proportioned. and that for the cotton crop there they need more nitrogen and potash than in the tipper country. In your section wo liud a different stale of affairs. There, in order that the host effect may be had from the application of potash ^ salts, there is needed a liberal proportion of phosphoric acid, of which your lands are dvlieient. The application of phosphate alone will not euro the evil, nor will the application of potash alone, but when used together in due proportion they give the happiest results. and especially when there is a complete mixture with a due percentage of nittogen. If your soil lacks phosphorie acid and potash there is :io way to gei them from ibe air. But what I was trying to come at in your case was the fact that no fertilizer application will give its best results till you have by good farming restored the humus which enables the lowland farmer to he more lavish with his fertilizers. He may he using things he iced not buy. and doubtless thou sauus 01 tanners arc* uuiiic; me same tliiug. because they fail to experiment w th their soil and tind out what it really needs. You and you alone can dc this, for the analysis of the chemical laboratory will not do it for you. It is only by testing ou separate plots the different forms of plant food and their combinations that any one can tind out the particular manurial needs of his soil. If your soil is sandy and much of your upland there is sandy, you may depend upon it that nitrogen and potash are the main needs of ihe soil, and that to get the best action of the potash there must be a due peri cent age of phosphoric acid. The I nitrogen you can get by good farming. the others von must add in the fertilizer, and the amount .. ?... Kl.. ...... ...Ill .lAHAtl.l .... I .YUU Uilll pIVUUiUl4? use III \iv|;cuu \jla the amount of nitrogen you gT through the cultivation of legumes and the storing of humus in your soil. The more you accumulate nitrogen aud organic matter in your soil the more liberal you can use the phosphoric acid and potash aud make it pay. for while getting the nitrogen through the legumes, you are at the same time getting the conditions n your soil that will enable you to use more and more of the other forms of p'-nt food. Feed the legumes with iiberal doses of phospnate and potash and your may depend 011 their doing the rest.?W. F. Massey. 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IJWPJUM i i 14 o Saturday?at every j in work?a Wicklcss ; will save labor* ?and keep the cook bulky fuel to prepare I g for the fire to come fraction of the expense I