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time, and we have four rows where the drill was used and 

 no fertilizer, and the two center rows will give us the average 

 of unfertilized plot, treated in exactly the same way. These 

 experiments will cost us at least $-50.00 in fertilizer and labor; 

 but I want to know the truth. If I have said too much 

 against fertilizers in chapter 2, I am ready to speak more 

 favorably when the facts warrant it. If I get no gain this 

 year again, why, this clover question w T ill seem still more 

 important. 



