Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-11-16
FERTILIZER TESTS
FOR TOBACCO CULTURE
NR. w. M. HINsoN OF THE AGRi-
CULTURAL DEPARTMENT
GIVES VALUABLE IN
FORMATION ON
Combination Of Fertilizers
Data Derived From Tests Made Near
This City, Giving Fertilizer
Used and Yields Resulting.
Government Will Fur
nish Seed.

The following information has been
furnished the Herald by Mr.. W. M.
Hinson, expert tobacco man, working
under the direction of the United
States Agricultural Department.:
During the field season of 1908
some experiments were carried on at
Mr.. Cuningham's tobacco plantation
near Palestine by the Bureau Of Plant
Industry, United States Department
of Agriculture, in order to test the
effect of different combinations of
fertilizers upon the yield and quality
S5of filler and wrapper tobaccos.
For the filler experiment, one-half
acre of Orangeburg sandy clay loan
was selected, and divided into ten
plots of one-twentieth of an acre
each These plots were planted in
seed of the best strain of Cuban filler
type, acclimated to Texas conditions.
The fertilizers used, and yield, were
as follows:
Plot / One ton stable manure.
Cost per acre, $1,000. Yield per acre.
100. pounds.
Plot 2 One hundred pounds cotton
seed meal. Cost per acre, $500.
Yield per acre, $50 pounds.
Plot 8. Fifty pounds cotton seed
meal, ten pounds sulphate of potash,
ten pounds acid phosphate. Cost per
acre, $1,000. Yield per acre, $40
pounds.
Plot 4. Fifteen, pounds acid phos-
phate. Cost per acre, $3.75. Yield
per acre, 400 pounds.
Plot 5. One hundred pounds cotton
seed meal, Z IL pounds nitrate of
soda. Cost per acre, S31.O0 Yield
per acre, 1880 pounds.
Plot G.. Seventy-five pounds cotton
seed meal, ten pounds phosphate of
potash, twenty-five pounds bone meal.
Cost per acre. $1,000 Yield per acre,
1860 pounds.
Plot Z. Seventy-five pounds cotton
seed meal, ten pounds nitrate of Soda
twenty-five pounds bone meal, ten
pounds acid phosphate Cost per
acre, $3.50. Yield per acre, 1920
pounds.
Plot s. No fertilizer on this plot
Yield per acre, 420 pounds.
Plot 9. Twenty-Five pounds nitrate
of soda, ten pounds sulphate of potash
Cost per acre, $3.50. Yield per acre,
$50 pounds.
Plot 10. One hundred pounds cot
ton seed meal, fifteen pounds lime.
fifteen pounds acid phosphate. ten
pounds sulphate of potash. Cost per
acre, $3.50. Yield per acre, 945
pounds
Total cost of fertilizer per acre,
s24.36. Total average yield per acre.
S2S pounds
For the Sumatra wrapper expert
ment, five-fourteenths of an acre of
Orangeburg sandy loan was selected
under Stat shade, and divided into five
plots eack-pfor being one-fourteenth
of an acre. These plots were planted
in Sumatra seed, strain of cigar leaf
wrapper tobacco that had been accl-
mated to Texas conditions.
The fertilizers used, and yield, were
as follows:
Plot IL. One hundred pounds cot
ton seed meal, three-fourths of ton
of stable manure, twenty pounds nj
trate of soda. Cost per acre, SLABS.
Yield per acre, $40 pounds.
Plot u. One hundred pounds cot
ton seed meal, three-fourths of a ton
of stable manure, ten pounds nitrate
of soda. twenty pounds sulphate of
potash Cost per acre, SASS. Yield
per acre, 952 pounds.
Plot 49, One hundred pounds cot
ION seed meal, three-fourths of ton