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Figure 34 is a plan of the experimental plats and shows very clearly 
that the attacks of the pod moth were not restricted to any one part 
of the field, but were more or less promiscuously distributed. The 
plantings were made on a gentle slope, the upper side being to the 
south, thus giving a northerly exposure. The vacant rectangle in 
the center of the plan indicates a wheat-straw stack. All sides of the 
field were bounded by grain fields, and the roadside was practically 
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without weeds of any kind. The plats were separated from each 
other by strips of oats 1 yard in width. 
Field peas vary greatly in texture of the seed, time of blooming, 
time of maturing seed, and adaptability to semiarid conditions. The 
variability, however, is confined to the varieties to a large extent, 
the individuals of a variety being quite uniform in response to given 
conditions. This fact at once opened the question of a worm- 
resistant variety. The results arrived at by this investigation are 
very suggestive. The actual records made in the investigation are to 
be found in Table I, but to make the results more readily available the 
