The Use Of Commercial Fertilizers In The Growing Of Cotton PDF Download

Excerpt from Fertilizers for Cotton Soils In four States of the southeastern Cotton Belt - North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama tons of commercial fertilizers were used, amounting to 69 per cent of all the fertilizers used on this crop in the United States. In Table 1 the 1930 statistics are given, showing the acreage planted to cotton, acre yields and amounts of fertilizers used in growing cotton in all the Southern States. Fertilizers have long been recognized as an especially important factor in cotton production in the Southeastern States. In this belt the amount of cotton land fertilized ranged in different States from to 97 per cent of the acreage in cotton in 1930. The average quantity used per acre varied from 262 pounds in Alabama to 425 pounds in North Carolina. The average acre yield of lint cotton in the several States of the southeastern group ranged from 188 pounds in Alabama to 233 pounds in North Carolina. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.