The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-04-20

The land was naturally thin. sandy soil,
underlaid by yellow clay very similar
to much of the branch hillside, gray
soils Of middle Georgia 1t had been in
cotton fertilizer experiments the two
years previously. the plots aud rows
running at right angles to those of the
present experiment, But the land was
poor. On all the plots the corn grew
off well and throughout the season was
the best on the farm; but there was no
perceptlble difference between tie DIFF
ferent plots. 1t was very uniform in
every respect over the entire section.
The yield, carefully gathered and
weighed, Sept. %, shows no difference
Unfortunately no unfertilized plots
We're left, and therefore the increased
yield of cotton due to the composts does
not appear; but Mr.. Kimbrough, agri-
culturist, believes the unaided soil would
not have made exceeding - or 10
bushels or corn per acre.
CONCLUSIONS
l. That there is no material advant-
age, if any, in composing and ferment-
ing mixture of cotton seed, stable ma
nure and acid phosphate several weeks
beforehand, compared with APPLYING
the same Quantities of the same materials.
unfermented, one day before planting.
?. incidentally, it appears that on
thin, sandy land, deficient in humus a
mixture of cotton seed (crushed). stable
manure and acid phosphate gives better
results on such land than mixture of
cottonseed meal, muriate of potash and
acid phosphate. This may be in part
| due to the excess of acid phosphate-in-
ntr Nd r
| murlate of potash in experiment No. G.
| This point will be more clearly elabor
ateq next season.
VARIETY TEST OF COTTON.
In this experiment % varieties of cot.
ton were planted, and for full concep-
ton OF the results the tabulated state
ment OF the station must be seen. We
give here the comments of the director
of the station on special varities.
Varieties. Big Boil is new
Using, giving the largest yield of the 25,
both iii seed cotton and.spercentage of
lint. 1t has large bollss ASsymmetrical
stalk and fair staple
Okra Leaf-Quite early and suited to
the rich lowlands and pra1ries of high
ATTITUDES. 1t is deficient in foliage.
Hunnicutt's Choice-An excellent
prolific variety.
Southern Hope-Good, productive.
Tennessee's Gold Dust and Kings
Very early and moderately productive.
These two are remarkably similar in
every respect, and probably of identical
origin Well suited to high ATTITUDES
because of their extreme earliness,
yielding more than three-fourths of their
total crop before the 1st of October, al
though planted April Is.
Plttmans-This was the most prolific
variety in 1891, but did not maintain it's
position. 1t is a short limbed cluster
variety.
Duncans Mommoth. Mammoth Pro-
lltlc, FRUITS Improved are all very sim
liar III habit and probably Of same ori-
gin, but TRUTHS Improved mas larger
weed" and is more prolific
Jones, Wonderful is an excellent type
OF the upland long staple varieties and
is more productive and OF better staple
than any Of the class tested on the
| station.
The yield of lint per 100 pounds of
seed cotton was found by carefully gin
ming the enUire product of each variety.
January 20, after thorough air driving.
1t may be said by way of caution that
there is no necessary relation between
the yield of lint per 100 pounds of seed
cotton and the actual yield of lint per
acre. A variety may yield high per-
centage of lint, calculated on a given
weight OF seed cotton, and yet yield less
lint per acre than another variety 1t is
probably more question of seed than
OF lint. AS the seed contain nearly all
| OF the valuable elements taken from the
SOIL 1t is but reasonable to expect that
large yield Of seed per acre will be at
tended by a corresponding large yield
of lint We have but little doubt that
F., some varieties that are popular with
the mass of farmers because of their
large percentage of lint compared to
seed simply produce less seed per acre
instead of more lint per acre, 1t re-
mains true, however, that small
seeded variety-small in size and small
IN percentage of the whole-is better for
poor land and low culture than a varie-
ty having naturally large seed and a
smaller percentage of lint.
For further remarks on this line, and
In regard to large boiled varieties the
reader is referred to Experiment No. 10.
N. B.-Two elaborate experiments
that appear in the bulletin of the sta
ton. Effect of increasing amount of
fertilizers on cotton, and general fertil-
lzer experiment on cotton will appear
IN the next report of the department
space not permitting their publication
in this issue.