THE BEAUFORT NEWS BEAUFORT, N. C.
Thursday, October 7, 1937
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REPORT GIVEN ON FERTILIZER
EXPERIMENTS OF GIBBS' FARM
Federal Biochemist
Made Tests Over
3-Yr. Period
Press Qleaninqs
to find a cook that is a cook and a
fish that is a fish and begin his edu
cation for the greater glory of North
Carolina and the greater development
of the State's fishing industry.
p. s. And when Mr. Dunlap sits
at the head of thet able as student,
the-editor would like to be some
where near the bottom as simple
eater, untutored and uninterrupted.
(News and Observer).
Ammoniated triple superphosphate
potassium chloride, ammouium sul
plate and urea, with an acidity eq
uivalent of 750 pounds of calcium
carbonate per ton neutralized with
dolmitic limestone produced an av
erage of 171 bushels of Irish pota
toes per acre over a three year per
iod on the Tom Gibbs farm, accord
ing to a report furnished the County
Farm agent here by J. J. Skinner,
senior biochemist of the soil fertility
investigations division of the U. S.
Department of Agriculture. This is
the greatest quantity of bushels pro
duced following the use of a series
f fertilizer used in the test over a
three year period. On soil in which
no fertilizer at all was used over a
three year period only 94 bushels per
acre was realized.
Ten different compositions of fer
tiilzer was used in the experiments
by Mr. Skinner on the Tom Gibbs
farm during l'J35, 1930 and 1937.
The fertilizer analysis number, com
position and the average yield of
potatoes per acre follows:
(7-6-5) Superphosphate, amnion
rum sulphate (87. N) cottonseed
meal (12.5 N.) potassium sul
phate, acidity equivalent 680 pounds
caco per ton 122 bushels.
7-6-5) Same as above composi
tion with calcium limestone produc
ed 133 bushels per acre.
(7-6-5) Same as first composition
but neutralized with calcium lime
stone and with magnesium sulphate
added, produced 146 bushels per
ere.
(7-6-5) iSame composition as first
but neutralized with dolomitic lime
stone produced 144 bushels per acre.
(7-6-5) Superphosphate, ammoni
um sulphate (87 N.) urea (12.
f) potassium sulphate; neutraliz
ed with dolomitic limestone, produc
ed 149 bushels per acre.
14-12-10 Amo-phos, ammonium
eulphate (2-3 or remainder of N),
urea (1-3 of N), potassium sulphate;
acidity equivalent 707 pounds Co
C03 per ton, a fertilizer containing
no calcium of magnesium produced
128 bushels per acre.
(14-12-10) Same as foregoing
composition but neutralized with dol
mitir limestone produced 156 bushels.
(14-12-10) Same as above compo
sition but with calcium sulphate ad
ded equivalent to calcium produced
151 bushels per acre.
(14-12-10) Ammoniated trpile
superphosphate, potassium chloride,
mmonnium sulphate and Urea, with
cidity equivalent 780 pounds cal
cium carbonate per ton produced
enly 126 bushels per acre, but this
fame composition neutralized with
clolmotic limestone produced the top
yield of the experiments of 171
bushels per acre.
In a letter to the county agent rel
ative to the experiments on the Tom
Gibbs Farms, Mr. Skinner wrote:
"You will note that fertilizer which
contained limestone have given larg
er yields than acid forming fertiliz
ers. It is also of interest to note that
double strength fertilizers, No. 6-10,
have given as large or larger yields
than the single strength fertilizers,
No. 1-5.
FISH IS NOT FISH
'Fish is fish," says Frank Dunlap,
iState highway chairman, of the big
hauls pulled in by convicts which are
being used in feeding the inmates of
State institutions.
Mr. Dunlap is wrong. Entirely
wrong. Pigs may be pigs, but to say
that '"fiish is fish" is to confound
the pompano with the croaker, and
the flounder with the eel.
But Mr. Dunlap's statement is not
unfamiliar in North Carolina. Too
many other inland citizens have tak
en the sad and ignorant position that
fish is fish. The State's fishereis have
suffered from this indiscriminate
lumping together of the best and
the worst Old Ocean provides.
That may be the reason so many
North Carolinians fling all fish into
the frying pan. And, indeed, the
flavor having been fried out of them
all, it is no wonder that thousands
of eaters, who ought to be making
markets of themselves for our fish
ermen, believe that 'fish is fish" and
eat none.
Something ought to be done about
the sad case of Mr. Dunlap. The
State Board of Conservation and De
velopment, the North Carolina Fish
eries, Inc., or the independent fisher
men, or all of them together, ought
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