The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1918-07-26
CROP TESTS DRAW
CROWD TO SCOTS
Of ANTERs FROM VALLEY couN.
TIES OF ARKANSAS VISIT
BRANCH EXPERIMENT
STATION.

Farmers from most of the bottom
land counties of Arkansas We're pres
ent at the second annual meeting and
demonstration at the SCOTS branch
of the State Agricultural Experiment
Station, at SCOTS, Ark, on Tuesday
afternoon, July %. The forty acres
of test crops, including corn, cotton
small grains, legumes and other field
plants. were inspected by the visitors
in groups, with one of the agricultur-
al experts as conductor of each party
Five hundred persons were present
the attendance being especially large
from Pulaski, Lonoke. Prairie and
Jefferson counties.
J. R. Alexander, the we'll known
planter of the SCOTS district, presid-
ed at the meeting in the community
social hall. He said that the expert
ment station had been of the greatest
value to the farmers, not only of the
adjacent section, but of all Central
Arkansas, where the problems of ag-
rieulture are similar He said that
more room was needed for the crop
experiments and that the next legis-
lature would be asked for larger ap-
preparation for this work. The sta
ton is permanent and the scope of
the work will be extended as means
are provided. Mr.. Alexander is a
member of the legislature. He said
Governor Brough had promised his
support to the movement for a larger
experiment station at SCOTS.
Prof. Martin Nelson, dean of the
College of Agriculture, Fayetteville,
explained that the SCOTS Branch Sta
tion was made possible by a small ap-
preparation by the 1917 Legislature
Il is in charge of a trained director
from the University of Arkansas Elk
pertinent Station. There are more
than 1000 experimental plots as fol-
lows
Corn: Regular test of seventy-tYo
varieties, Test of Arkansas native
varieties. Dates of planting promis-
ing varieties. Cultivation expert
ments. Spacing tests Corn and
eowpeas. Velvet beans and corn
Corn and soybeans Corn for silage
Early varieties after oats and wheat.
Cotton: One hundred and twelve
varieties for observation. Regular
test of Is common varieties. Many
strains of z promising varieties. One,
2 3 or plants per hill? Rows 3, q,
4, or 6 feet wide? $4,000, 10000.
$4,000, 1880 10000, 1900, 5000 or
2,5Oo plants per acre? One plant 10
inches or plants 80 inches apart?
Treatment of cotton seed to hasten
termination. Check-row and other
methods of cultivation. Time of lay
ing by Varying stands. Replant with
corn or cotton? Bedding VS.. level
planting. Time of planting Top
ping Time of thinning. Thinning
VS.. no thinning. Plants feet or 3
inches in the drill. Two hundred and
nifty plots of breeding cotton (varie-
ues) may be seen.
Fertilizer: Twenty fertilizers and
combinations of fertilizers for corn,
cotton and sorghum for hay. Date
Of applying nitrate of soda to corn
and cotton. Rate of applying nitrate
OF soda to corn and cotton. Sources
OF nitrogen for corn and cotton.
Forage Crops: Varieties of cow
peas and soybeans for grain and for
nay Methods of preparing stubble
fr,- fnes
OF planting cowpeas, soy beans and
sorghum after grain. Peanuts-va-
neties and rates of planting. Sudan
grass and sorghum VS.. cowpeas ana