The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-02-28
BARNARD MANURE FOR JAPANESE
CANE PROVES BEST ERTILIZER
Actual Experiments Show Marked
Gain in Production.
BY JOHN M. SCOTT.

japanese cane is being used as
forage to a great extent every year;
more farmers dire beginning to realize
it's value. and as result the acreage
in the state is being increased an
nually. Its use in feeding dairy cat
tie is approved by the experience Of
some of the more progressive dairy
men in Florida. As a feed for mules
in lumber and turpentine camps. Jap
anese cane is well known and consiG~
cred one of the best forages.
Fertilizer Tests.
Since Japanese cane is adapted to
Florida conditions and is likely to
become one of ths most. important
forage crops of the state, the results
of fertilizer tests made at this station
are of interest.
The tests with barnyard manure for
Japanese cane We're begun at the
Florida Agricultural Experiment sta
ton in the spring of 1914. The ma
nure was compared with commercial
fertilizer 1t was taken from the mule
barn and applied at the rate of 80
wagon loads to the acre. applied
broadcasr between the rows of cane
and worked in as the soil was culri-
waited
Comparison of Yields.
The yields given below are the av-
erage yields of green material in tons
an acre for an average of six years,
from 1914 to 1919
Plot was given 81 pounds of sui
phate Of ammonia $50 pounds of acid
phosphate. SO pounds Of sulphata of
potash and 1000 pounds of ground
limestone to the acre. (The ground
limestone was applied in 1914, 1916
and 1918, or every other year, The
average yield was. 11.3 tons an acre.
Plot 2. was given 1894 pounds of
dried blood, $50 pounds acid phso-
phate, 60 pounds sulphate of potash
and 1900 pounds ground limestone.
The average yield was 1915 tons
Plot 8 was given 80 wagon loads
barnyard manure. The average yield
was 22.3 tons.
Plot was given 1898 pounds dried
blood, 70 pounds floats and so pounds
sulphate Of potash. The average yield
was 9 tons.
Plot 5 was given 81 pounds sulphate
of ammonia. $50 pounds acid phos-
phate and 60 pounds OF suIphate of
potash. The average yield was 119
tons.
Plot was given 81 pounds of sui
phate Of ammonia, as pounds floa is
and so pounds sulphate of potash.
The average yield was 100 tons.
Plot was given "a pounds sulphate
of ammonia, 60 pounds sulphate of
potash and 1000 pounds ground lime
stone. The average yield was 10
tons.
Plot 8 was given "a pounds suIphate
of ammonia, 1873 pounds Thomas Stag
and SO pounds sulphate of potash.
The average yield was 113 tons.
Two check plots to which no ferti-
lizer was given gave an average yield
of "A tons.
Those plots which received com
mercial fertilizer We're given the same
amounts of plant food The plot which
received barnyard manure was given
more plant food than any of the plots
which received commercial fertilizer,
but less in proportion of yields of
cane
Best Yield From Barnyard Manure
In comparing the results of these
tests it is evident that the BARNARD
manure produced the best yield. In
fact the yield from the barnyard ma
nure plot was double that of any 9TH
er plot. 1t will be noticed that there
is but little difference in the yield of
any OF the plots except plot (barn-
yard manure), plot 4 and the check
plots.
he barnyard manure plot produc-
ed yield five times greater than
the check plots and twice as great as
any of the other plots.