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would clean up his celery fields absolutely, if it wouldn't cost 

 him much money. In my own case this last year I planted celery 

 on a tract of land where I had blight last year, and again this 

 year. A friend of mine who was in the business in 1913 had 

 bad blight in his celery, and in 1914 planted the land with 

 celery and had the best crop he had ever raised. I can't ex- 

 plain it and I don't believe you can. I can't tell whether that 

 blight is carried over in the soil or not. In my experience I 

 should say it was perfectly positive it was so; but I go to my 

 friend who did the same that I did and he had not a bit of 

 trouble. 



