Use Of Commercial Fertilizers In Cotton Production

In four States of the southeastern Cotton Belt--North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama--1,646,420 tons of commercial fertilizers were used, amounting to 69 percent 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.