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WEDNESDAY, APBIL 25, 1894.
Fertilizers for Cotton.
"Fertilizers for Cotton" is the title of
armerk? Bulletin No. 14 (pp. 32) of
the U. S. Department of Agriculture,
prepared by J. M. McBryde. Pb. D.,
President of Virginia Agricultural and
Mechanical College and Director of
Virginia Agricultural Experiment
Station.
The purpose of the bulletin is to
disseminate more correct ideas regard?
ing the manuring of cotton and thus
prevent as far as possible, the lavish
and i D jud icio os use of fertilizers, which,
there is reason to believe, results io the
waste of hundreds of thousand of dol?
lars by farmers of the South every
year.
A brief discussion is given of the
v results of careful experiments carried
ont under the direction of Dr. McBryde
at the South Carolina Experiment
Station. These experiments extended
over three years and were conducted
on two farms located in different parts
of the State.
The questions studied were "Does
cotton require potash, phosphoric acid,
and nitrogen? If so, in.what amounts
and in what forms? Does it need
lime ? Will copperas prevent its rust?
ing? At* what time or times should
nitrate of soda be applied? How
should the fertilizers be applied ?"
Carefully studied in all their beariogs
the result of the experiments war ra ot
the following conclusions, which how?
ever io practice must be modified
according to the special requirements
of different soils. Cotton requires a
complete fertilizer, i. e., one containing
all three of the elements of plant food,
nitrogen, phosphoric acid, and potash.
Of these, *'phosphoric acid is relatively
the most important and controls the
action of the other two," that is, with
a given amount of phosphoric acid
only certain amounts of nitrogen and
potash can be profitably used. *
Thc proportion of the three elements
should be 1 part of nitrogen to 2J parts
of phosphoric acid and f part of potash.
A crop yielding 300 pounds of lint per.
acre requires a fertilizer supplying 20
pounds of nitrogen, 50 pounds of
phosphoric acid, and 15 pounds of
potash.
Potash can be as effectively supplied
by muriate of potash or kainit as by sul?
phate of potash.
Phosphoric acid should be used io the
form of acid phosphates containing con?
siderable amounts of soluble phosphoric
acid. Insoluble phosphoric acid io
slag, Soats, or marl is of little direct
?aloe to cotton and the use of these
materials is in any case of doubtful
economy.
Inorganic nitrogeo in th; form of
nitrate of soda ; organic nitrogen in the
form of cotton-seed, cotton-seed meal,
dried blood, or stable manure; and
mixed nitrogen in the form of a com?
bination of stable manure and nitrate
of soda, were of very nearly equal value
for cotton, the slight difference being in
favor of the last two.
"Stable manure containing organic
nitrogeo is the best fertilizer of its class ;
and is lasting or cumulative in its
effects." Where the supply of the man?
ure is limited its organic nitrogen may
be economically replaced to che extent
of 50 per cent by inorganic nitrogen in
the form of nitrate of soda.
"Of the commercial forms of nitrogen
among which tbe farmer has to choose,
the organic nitrogeo of dried blood ts
perhaps tbe best, and at present prices
cheapest. As between cotton-seed meal
and cotton seed there is a slight differ?
ence in favor of the former.
"Whole cotton seed is as efficacious
as ground cotton seed.
"Used alone, or in combination with
commercial fertilizers the lime of marl is
of no direct value to cotton. Mixed
with acid phosphate it may even act
injuriously by retarding or preventing
its solution in the soils. Applied upon
leguminous crops, such as cowpeas,
vetch, etc., which are to be turned
under as a preparation for cotton, its
indirect value is great.
"Applications of copperas are without
effect upon cotton.
"Nitrate of soda should generally be
applied along with the other fertilizers
at the time of planting.
"Fertilizers may be indifferently
drilled or broadcasted where they are
liberally applied, but drilling is to be
preferred where small amounts are
employed."
In conclusion the bulletin gives the
composition of 16 of the more common
fertilizing materials, together with a,
number of formulas showing how to mix j
these materials so as to secure the right >
proportions of nitrogeo, phosphoric acid, j
and potash for cotton.
The Kegister and The Laurens Her?
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ing among all the antis to do some
terrible thing in connection with the
Darlington trouble. They seem to
think that all the aotis knew Rodgers
and Floyd were going to have a per?
sonal difficulty at the depot at Darling?
ton, and that McLendon was going to
fire on a citizen and start a difficulty.
That sort of "rot" ought to be sup?
pressed. It can do no earthly good
and bas no foundation in fact. And
we believe these papers know it. If
Gov. Tillman wants to do his State a
service and keep down incendiary
utterances be ought at ooce to put a
special guard over the editorial gush of
this kind.-Newberry News and Her?
ald.
"Bur-rds is ?ntil?igent," Mrs,
Brannigan observed as she encountered
her friend Mrs. O'Fiaherty. "?e can
teache'em annyting. Me sister has
wan as lives in a clock, an' phin it's
toime to tell th* toime it comes out an*
says 'cuckoo' as manny toimes as th'
toime is."
"Dfchot's wondherful V said Mrs.
O'Fiaherty.
'/It is iodade," said Mrs. Branni?
gan. "An' th* wondherful par-rt ov
it all it's only a wooden bur-rd at
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It happened in Sunday-school. The
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and bis wisdom. A little girl was
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the women who disputed the posses?
sion of a child. She timidly rose up
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per's Magazioe.
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