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RADIUM AS A FERTILIZER. 



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Professors Hopkins and Sachs of the 

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It appears that one srain of radium 

 costs more than most kooiI, modern 

 Kreenhouse estahlishments earn, net, 

 in a year ($10,000). It further appears 

 that if an enterprlsins (or fool) florist 

 owning a place nettinj; $10,000 per 

 year should invest the whole year's 

 profits in one urain of radium the in- 

 crease of crop for the nexl year due to 

 the radium could easily lie put in the 

 northeast corner of one of the eyes of 

 his smallest baby and not inconven- 

 ience the child in the least. 



We have been pleased with the won- 

 derful results from radium applied to 

 the tomato-potato grafting process as 

 recently described, but we remember to 

 have seen some very successful results 

 of this kind without radium. We have 

 seen ten trials of this sort conducted 

 under uniform conditions without ra- 

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