The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-16
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depth of only i've inches on the othel plots.
 These, the second years results. show but slight Sains from sub-soiiing fol cern. namely an average of one anS one-half bushels per acre.
 With cotton the gain apparently due to the second-year effect of sub-soiiins was 25S pounds of seed cotton per acre This difference from sub-soiling the two crops Is one of the many examples of the peculiar and uncertain effects ot sub-soiling, sometimes profitable and sometimes unprofitable.
 Cultivation of either cotton or corn to depth of three inches gave almost the same results as cultivation of the same crops to depth of five inches. Let none conclude from this that ordi- parfly 1t Is safe to cultivate five inches deep. For this experiment was made on recently cleared land in which the soil. being loose. crops might be ex- pected to root deeply. Moreover, half of the plots had been sub-soiled the preceding year, a condition also fa- voreble to deep cultivation.
 Hairy vetch when inoculated made a luxuriant growth, but failed when the land was not inoculated.
 Alfalfa started on much better on inocuiated than on on-inOculated land, but during the first summer it was crowded out and destroyed by crab grass. Note that this was the result in spite of the fact that the grass was twice removed with hoe and hand. This again suggests how difficult it is to sundue crab grass effectively in alfalfa growing in soil not especially suited to this latter plant. It should be added that the land on which this and one other failure with alfalfa occurred had been especially prepared for this crop by the blowing in of growth of snap beans. by the application of stable ma nure. and by the turning under of a heavy cowpea stubble in September just before the alfalfa was sown.
 Professor Ferris concludes: Tn view of these facts, it would hardly seem probable that alfalfa will make a money crop for this section in the near future"
 Crimson clover proved failure, dy- ing few weeks after coming up in the fall. Dwarf essex rape. planted in the early fall. made very satisfactory growth and furnished large amount of pasturage for hogs during winter. Bermuda grass seed sown at the scant rate of three or four pounds per acre and fertilized with cotton seed meal, afforded on this new ground consider able grazing the first year. It is inter esting to note that in order better to SOW the Bermuda seed they were mixed with about fifty pounds of cotton seed meal. This practice is not generally ad- visable, for where several hundred pounds of cotton seed meal per acre are used in immediate contact with certain seeds, the germination of the seed Is apt to be interfered with.
 J. F. D. Fertilizers for Oats on Prairie Land.
 correspondent in the Canebrake asks formulas for fertilizing fall oats on thin prairie upland and spring sown oats on bottom land, and makes inquiry as to certain varieties Of oats and corn.
 Your recent letter is at hand. You will probably be pleased with Burt oats for spring sowing. With us they give about the same yield as spring sown oats with the advantage of being ear- Her. can advise nothing better for fertilizer for fall sown- oats than either cotton seed or cotton seed meal, say 200 pounds of meal or several times this amount Of seed. Then supplement with eighty pounds of nitrate of soda next Mafch.
 The spring sewn oats on rich bottom land will probably need, after growth begins, not exceeding eighty pounds of nitrate of soda per acre, and no other fertilizer.
 would not advise you to change from the Tennessee red cob corn which has proved suitable in your case and which is always safe variety.
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