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well, and were singled on the 18th of July. The plants on the 

 plots which had received dung were fairly uniform, those receiving- 

 dung only being slightly behind the others. The plants on the 

 undunged plots that got superphosphate were on the average as 

 good as those on the dunged plots. Those receiving ground 

 mineral phosphate were somewhat poorer, while the plants on the 

 plots which got no phosphatic manure were much the smaHest. 

 All the turnips on the field were checked in their growth, and the 

 ultimate crop decreased by the large rainfall during the last two 

 weeks of July. In the experimental ground some plots proved 

 to be more clayey than others, and owing to this, along with the 



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