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EXPERIMENTS WITH DIFFERENT 



impeiial quarter, thus :— Mungoswells at 36s. ; Hopetoun at 39s. J 

 Hunter's at 37s. ; Fenton at 36s. 



1. The soil, for the most part, a heavy loam, inclining to clay 

 at the lower end. The previous crops had been partly beans and 

 partly potatoes, with manure applied in autumn across the ridges, 

 and the drills of both crops took the like direction. By this 

 arrangement each experimental lot of land contained the same 

 extent of each kind of soil and the same extent of the previous 



