The Nevada County picayune., 1907-03-22
HOW MUCH FERTILIZER TO
 APPLY.

The question, 'How much fertilizer
 should be used per acre?' cannot be an. swered definitely, but only in general
 way. It is sometimes put in this iorm;
 "What is the most profitable amount that may be applied per acre?' Neither can the question in the amended form pc exactly and accurately answered. rho soil. its character, condition, preparations etc. may be we'll known, or controllabl0 factors but we know not what the sea.
 sons may be, says Hon. R. J. Reddlngs
 Director Georgia Experiment Station, 70. partment of Agriculture, in the VngihiAs Carolina Fertilizer Almanac.
 We know that some crops will pear larger amounts of fertilizers with reason- able assurance of profitable returns than
 may be expected of other soiE. crop that occupies the soil from the fall season
 until spring. or early summer, Will pear
 heavier fertilizing than will a crop thae
 ts planted in the spring and ripens Tor harvest in midsummer. The first case IS illustrated by oats, wheat, or other small grain, or grass, especially when soWn III the fall of the year. Such crop occu-
 pies the soil during the late fall and win ter, and early spring-during which pc riods tbe rains are usually abundant-
 ripening for harvest in late spring, or very early summer, before the burning
 summer heat and possible drouths or June and July. Oats and wheat therefore
 are ideal crops for liberal fertiliZing. Corn is rather an uncertain crop on the
 ordinary dry uplands of the South. It has but short period In which to devei- | op It's fiowers-tassels and silks-cover- | ing but a few days. If very dry weather | approaching. and for some time after 1t
 Is passed. the crops may prove greater | or less failure. There can be no second
 effort. no second period of blooming. It Is different in the case of cotton, | which commences to bloom and mako l fruit in June tor even earlier and con- | tinues throughout the summer until checked by a severe frost in November.
 It has a number of "chances."
 Cotton is therefore another ideal crop | of fertilizers applied per acre will no | doubt yield a larger percentage profit | on its cost than will larger amount | To illustrate: An application of E worth
 creased yield of cotton Cat 10 cents per l pound) of the value of s6 to ss. profit l of POO to 300 per cent. on Its cost. 1 have | frequently had such results. But 1t does | not follow that twice as heavy an appli- l cation will produce twice as large re- | suits, or that three times much would | cause three times great an increase
 in the yield. In other words, the rate | of increase Tn the yield of cotton will | not be in proportion to the increase in | dollars worth of fertilizer per acre may | yield an increase in the crop of s6: but l e6 worth would not therefore bring an increase of SIS
 an application of $ to s6 worth of fertil- | fzers tproperly baianced) Is a safe amount | to apply per acre on cotton. Many farm CTS in Georgia have secured satisfactory | returns from an application of so much l a. 800 pounds per acre.
 1 think 600 pounds d perfectly safe limit on upland in fairly good condition. well prepared and properly cultivated in cot | ton. For corn. l would limit the amount
 to zoo to 300 pounds per acre On old up-