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EXPEPJMEXTAL STATIONS — REPOKT FOR 1880. 



Barley-Straw, Pdmpherston, 1879. 



The first ten plots are designed to test the efficacy of the 

 various forms of phospbatic manures both in the dissolved and 

 undissolved form.* The relative merits of dissolved and undis- 

 solved phosphates as a manure for the turnip crop has recently 

 received a considerable share of attention, and it is only right in 

 estimating their relative merits that their effects upon other 



* See " Scheme of Experiments," p. 376. 



