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ment Station, as these gentlemen are accustomed to carrying out experi- 

 mental work. 



Principal dimming writes as follows : — 



" The only positive results we have to report are with your alfalfa 

 culture. Our red clover was sown just in time to catch the drought, and 

 neither that treated with culture or left untreated amounted to much. 



"The peas and vetches all grew very rank, and it was impossible to 

 notice any difference between the treated and untreated plots. With the 

 alfalfa we were more successtul, having sown it just at the right time. 

 We conducted the experiment in duplicate, and had side by side plots that 

 were untreated with culture, plots treated with United States Department 

 of Agriculture culture, and plots treated with your culture . For some 

 reason or other, we got no decided results with United States culture; 

 possibly it was not rightly handled. Of this I am not sure, for I was away 

 from home when the seed was treated. The most marked results were 

 found on a piece of land, which was seeded with a nurse crop of barley. 

 The plot that was treated with your culture has, at the present time, a most 

 vigorous growth of alfalfa, the plants being on an average of eight inches 

 high, which, considering the dry season, is very good. On the untreated 

 plot adjoining the alfalfa will not average more than one inch in height, 

 and the plants are rather sickly looking. 



" I sent you by last night's mail a representative plant from each plot, 

 and you will readily observe the decided difference in the nodular growth. 

 I have sent a picture of the two plots to the " Farmer's Advocate" asking 

 them to make plates. 



" Our most striking results are on a piece of land which was in roots 

 last year, and consequently was free from weeds of all kinds when the 

 alfalfa was sown. We tried a duplicate experiment on a piece of land, 

 which was ploughed out of sod after having been down fifteen or twenty 

 years. We grew six plots on this piece of land ; two untreated, which 

 amounted to almost nothing ; two treated with United States culture, 

 which are little, if any better, and two treated with your culture, which are 

 so strikingly superior that you can pick out the plot almost as far away as 

 you can see. 



"In the light of these results we are very anxious to continue our 

 work and would like especially to treat red clover seed as successfully as 

 we seem to have treated alfalfa." 



The results obtained at the Dominion Experimental Farm were as 

 follows : — 



Pot Experiments. Clover, sown May 6th., 3 cuttings. 



Total weight of green crops from untreated seed. . .374.7 grams. 



inoculated seed. .450.7 

 inoculated soil.. .440.4 

 A difference of about 17 percent, and 15 per cent, respectively in favor of 

 inoculated 



