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is capable of being increased in ratio to the achievements of the farm in 

 question, as well as to the results obtained by Sir J. B. Lawes in 

 his experiments at Rothamsted. 



Although the farm has passed through the vicissitudes of twenty- 

 three seasons, yet it is acknowledged that a consecutive series of bad 

 seasons, with disease in stock, call for special considerations, which are 

 not included in the analysis thus rendered. 



