The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-16

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 Bulletin, Nos7. of the Mississippi Az xtcultursl experiment. station gives the resnIts Of field experiments in 1904 at its branch station at McNeil on the the southern portion of the State. !. Thts branch station has been fn oper- alton oFisy about two years and for the support of this branch. the main sta- tion receives an annual appropriation from the State legislature of s6,oo0 per year as well as nearly similar Amounts for two other branch stations under Its Jurisdiction.
 If all the lines of work reported in tAts bulletin are Judiciously continued, &he expenditure will indeed be a wise one. The function Of this particular aure end horticulture in . portion of the State which has heretofore been 0avoted chiefly to numbering and tur- pentinins. Only the princirla lines of work and most conclusive results can be indicated in the following ab- utract:
 The horticultural work included fer ttlfEer and variety tests of peaches, strawberries, cabbaxes, beans and Irish potatoes. and miscellaneous experi- ments with tomstoes an1 q number of other vegetsbics.
 The Klondike proved the best va- riety of st.awberrfes fer market. Lady Thompson and Excelsior are also cpm- mended. the Excetsicr Icing at least 10 days earlier thar Kiondfke. hut yOofer shipper.
 The fertilizer experiments indicated that On this newly .lee red land the principal need Sas for acid phosphate. while lime was useless. Doubtless an Abundance af lime was supplied in the ashes resulting from the recent clear T. ctfG rn nd krish potatoes gave very satisfactory financ;al returns Cahbages. in fer tuixer experiment did not grow off Detisfactcriiy until nitrate of soda was nrriied. The average increase due to the application of fertilizer to cabbage was 2zs per cent on the natural soil md 249 per cent. on the land where 3ne previous year a number of cattle AAd been fed for the manure. Com pAring the land on which many cat t1s had thns been fed with normal soil. tht increased yield was worth $36 per acre.
 The author of this bulletin, Prof. y. B. Ferris, states that the results yhnw that while the droppings of rattle are very beneficial to this crop, they do not lessen the need Tor com, mercial fertilizers. but make them all the more beneficial" Aprarently kainit was not needed on this new land nor was lime, but cetton seed meal and nrid phosphate were both highly bene- <icial
 Shay beans. although 1egumious rrep, made their growth so early in the season as to need a nitrogenous fer ttlizer as we'll ss some phosphate and ksinif The most productive variety Of pofatoes was the Burbank The Tennessee Red Triumrh afforded near yy twice the yield obtained from To- ral Triumph seed which latter had been grown for several generations from small tubers Professor Ferris has had an unusual experience in hav- tnE nc trouble in securing q stand of fall Irish potatoes, but states that sat- tsfActory yields from fall Irish pota- toes have never been obtained there.
 Tn Fertilizer tests, acfd phosphate seenled to be the chief need both of cotton and of corn, and neither lime nor kainit was helpful on that soil Cotton seed meal had some value. On; corn, light applications of fertilizers were as good as heavy, and with this rrop the Increase due to having fed cattle on the land in previous years was i4.2 bushels per acre. The cor responding increase with cotton was 1.100 pounds oE seed cotton per acre On land thus excessive.y manured. the addition of commercial fertilizers was not profitable with either cotton or sorn. but was profitable with vege- fables.
 A variety test of cotton was ruined py shedding of forms. but King made the largest yield of seed cotton. In a wet season wide rows were best but in F previous year different results had been obtained.
 The rooly yam was considered the most satisfactory variety of sweet po- tatoes for Southern markets. Four hundred and twenty gallons of syrup were made from one and one- eighth acres of cane. Immature cane tops, sometimes recommended for planting, were found entirely unsatis- 4 Factory in fertilizer tests with cane. apparently each of the three materials. cotton seed meal, acid phosphate and kainit. greatly increased the yield,
 Fractional applications of fertilizers that Is reserving half until the thir- teenth of July afforded a smaller yield than when the entire amount 1.05O pounds per acre of a complete fer tiizer, was applied before planting.
 Acid phosphate was the only fertil- txer needed by Spanish peanuts, even lime apparently not increasing the yield of this variety.
 The yield of cassava was at the rate pr seven and one-half tons per acre on the sandy spots where the stand was best, but it's growth was poor on hhe more compact soils m that sandy eountry.
 A test was made of the effects of sup- p-sotling, performed in the spring pf the preceding year. The depth was eishteen Inches as compared with a
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