Fertilizers For Corn

A Virginia farmer writing to Coun try Gentleman says: We have inade and used a mixture for five years in succession with very successf ul results - composed of the followingmaterials: One-third cottonseedmeal, one-third dissolved South Carolina phosphate and one-third kainit. We buy the materials in bulk; haul home and mix on the barn floor. We apply a hundred pounds per acre. Have got the mixture for less than twenty dollars per ton- it will probably be a ïittle higher this year. We think it makes one barrel more per acre and this, for one dollar's worth of fertilizer, pays well. We use a corn planter which drops the corn and fertilizer at one operation - two rows at once. We lay off the ground one way, and then commence and plant the other way. It requires a careful hand to drop and there is no time to talk politics. Our land is red slate and has been settled and cultivated for a hundred and fifty years.