"Moosh:]" wrote in message
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On 3 Aug 2003 10:18:13 GMT, Brian Sandle
posted:

Interesting the statement that the fiber takes almost nothing from the
soil.

Well as the fibre is almost pure cellulose (poly glucose)
What did you think it takes? Same with vegetable oils.

For every pound of cotton there is 1.6 pounds of seed that is 20 some
percent protein and has a high oil content. A top yielding cotton crop can
take 80 bushes of seed to the acre off as well. That's were the fertilizer
goes. It is not as high in fertilizer needs as many crops and if you get too
much nitrogen it will not make fruit at all. But it is not a free crop.

At dryland yields of 300 pounds to the acre it is difficult to get an
economic response to fertilizer.

Gordon