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exceeded our expectations, the percentage of success upon all 

 crops, under all conditions, and in every part of the country 

 being over seventy-five per cent. This means that the farmer 

 was able to see a decided difference in the legumes which had 

 been treated with the bacteria distributed by the Department as 

 compared with those grown under ordinary circumstances. 



Sometimes the percentages of increase were as much as 500 

 per cent or more, and in the majority of cases the difference in 

 favor of the inoculated crop was 100 per cent. When it is 

 remembered that all of these experiments were carried on by 

 men who had no other knowledge of the bacteria than that 

 given them in the printed directions accompanying the cultures, 

 that they were not selected in any way, and that oftentimes the 

 region in which they attempted to grow the specific crop was not 

 by any means best adapted for it, I think you will agree with me 

 that the results have been very satisfactory. 



