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.
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 acr...