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Originally plots 15A! and 16A 3 were intended to be sown with 

 diseased seed from Poona, but as the seed was not received these 

 plots were all sown with Surat seed and the soil inoculated with 

 Poona soil which had grown diseased groundnut for several years. 



The sowing was delayed for some time in the hope of getting 

 diseased seed from Poona and hence the very low yield. 



Plots Aj and A 3 were affected more than plot A 2 and hence 

 the yield is less in both of them. Erom the above it can be said 

 that lime does not seem to have any effect on the disease. 



Similarly plot 20B was divided into three sub -plots and 

 201*! and 20 R. were to be sown with Poona diseased seed but not 

 inoculated with Poona soil. But as seed was not received the 

 area was sown with Spanish peanut, and small and big Japanese 

 very late in the season for the purpose of obtaining seed and hence 

 the outturn was very poor as tabulated below : 



18. Unirrigated Groundnut The two early ripening erect 

 varieties were tried as kharif crop which gave the following 

 results : 



N.B Date of sowing, 4th July 3906 ; of harvesting, 8th November 1906. 



A cultivator would have harvested it 10 or 15 days earlier, 

 but for seed purposes fully ripe fruits are necessary. 



The above varieties, though sown about three weeks later 

 than they should have been, have yielded a fairly good outturn and 

 if sown earlier appear likely to prove a profitable dry-crop. 

 Further trial will be made with these and the large Japanese, also 

 the newly introduced varieties, Mozambique and Senegal. 



