greatly prefer them to others containing less potash. It takes considerable observation and experimentation to determine the best practice in matters of this kind. Formula No. 7, in 1905, in some tobacco experiments conducted on the bright-leaf soils of Granville County, gave very promising results. Three hundred and eighty-eight pounds per acre of this mixture were used, which was equal to an application of 600 pounds of a mixture analyzing 4 per cent available phosphoric acid, 6 per cent potash and 4 per cent ammonia. A limited quantity of stable manure is very beneficial to tobacco, and it succeeds well after peanuts. These materials add ammonia to the soil, and where heavy applications of fertilizers are to be made in connection with manure, and on peanut land, it would be well not to have so much ammonia in the fertilizers as is used in the ones employed on land not having other ammoniated materials put on them. Formula No. 5 is destined to meet cases of this kind. A good many eastern tobacco growers plant tobacco after peanuts, and some of them grow peas between the hills of tobacco, planting them with hoes and putting six to ten peas in a place, the latter part of June or early in July. This improves the soil for after-crops, but tobacco grown after tobacco and peas is said not to be of good quality, though, as would be expected, the growth is very large. Good results will come from the use of high-grade fertilizers, such as are suggested above, or similar ones, and we believe that when once tried there will be no inclination to go back to the lower-grade ones, now so largely used. PUBLISHED MONTHLY AND SENT FREE TO CITIZENS ON APPLICATION. ENTERED AT THE RALEIGH POST-OFFICE AS SECOND-CLASS MAIL MATTER. STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. W. A. GRAHAM, Commissioner, ex officio Chairman, Raleigh. R. W. SCOTT, JR., Superintendent Edgecombe Test Farm, Rocky Mount, N. C. |