THE COMPOSITION OF THE SOIL 



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ceiving no organic manure, and therefore poor in partially 

 decomposed organic matter, get into so sticky and "un- 

 kindly " a state that the young plants have some difficulty 



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in surviving however much food is supplied, and may fail 

 altogether if bad weather intervenes in the spring (as in 1908 

 and 191 1); the dunged plots which are rich in this group 

 are much more favourable to the plant and never fail to give 



