The Monticellonian., 1899-02-10

meal to the extent of 700 pounds per acre each and especially both combined with HOO pounds of ashes give greatly increased yields.
 That on sweet potatoes 700 pounds of ashes increases the yield considerably but that HOO pounds is too much and 21oo pory
 tirely too much to be aps $
 to an acre. That AciNs~ysE
 to the extent of 700 ptssAooaa atroos 2 cotton-seed meal to the essaseoss ~ HOO pounds increases the nnpe~ and the combination of the :, 2 with 700 pounds of ashes increasea, l it.
 do not attempt to indicate what would have been the profits or losses on crops raised for market fertilized, cultivated, &c., as the rows of this experimental plot respectively were for the reason that to have done so would have extended this commit nication beyond due bounds-be- sides as the profits or losses are de- pendent upon the constantly vary ing and never previsable market prices of fertilizers and crops 1t will be better for those (should there be any) interested in the sub lject to make each for himself, cal culations regarding profit, &c., |, based on the then existing price of fertilizers and the prospective price of the crops in the produc- tion of which they are to be used. would, however, say and that with the utmost of emphasis that no one should use fertilizers with out first making such calculations besides taking eVery other pre- caution possible against mistakes and the loss liable to result there from.
 For the subject is one where Jumping at conclusions is nearly certain to be an expensive sport. It would be very erroneous to in- fer that there is any close or nec- essary correspondence between in crease of yield and increase of prof t. As an illustration of this, while 700 pounds of Acid Phos- phate increased the yield of cotton 67 per cent, owing to its high price, ($I9.5o per ton) and the low price of cotton (4t cents pound) there was loss from using 1t of I9 per cent. And yet while it only increased the yield of pea nuts 80 per cent, if we estimated peanuts and their cured vines to be worth as much as timothy hay now sells for per ton, the Acid Phos- phate gave profit of B per cent. And while on sweet potatoes it in- creased the yield but 45 per cent. it gave profit (estimating the po- tatoes at a5 cents bushel) of 3Io per cent. Yet it by no means fol- lows from this that 1t is as all ad- visable or that it would be even if we were assured that every season would be as free from drouth and otherwise as favorable to fertilized crops as the past one was and knew we could always get 25 cts. a bushel for sweet potatoes, it would, l say, by no means follow that it would be wise to fcrtilize sweet potatoes with Acid Phos- phate at the rate of 700 pounds per acre because while the increase of yield therefrom is 45 per cent. the increase of yield from doub- ling the area planted and the labor employed in raising a given quani- ty ot sweet potatoes would, of course, be 100 per cent or consider ably more than twice the increase from the Acid Phosphate. Wheth- CT therefore 1t would not be better to use the money the fertilizer would cost in cultivating more land would depend on the rental value of the land, cost of labor Sc.
 
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