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setting and fruiting heavily. According to reports 

 received treated crops have frequently given double 

 the yield of untreated. Several growers state that 

 ripening is advanced by from three to four weeks. 

 (Photo, p. 145.) 



TURNIPS. Several experiments have been made 

 with turnips. In one of these, in poor soil, peat 

 increased the yield by 100 per cent, over no treat- 

 ment, by 47 per cent, over artificial manures, and 

 26 per cent, over dung. In another experiment 

 humogen increased the yield by 121 per cent, over 

 no manure, while farmyard manure gave an increase 

 of 67 per cent, over none, and artificial manures 

 gave an increase of 52 per cent, over none. 



WALLFLOWERS. Fine bushy plants resulted from 

 treatment. Masses of fibrous roots were formed 

 which transplanted well, yielding plants that were 

 perfect mounds of bloom. 



WHEAT. Wheat treated on an experimental 

 scale in a market garden with humogen, and 

 compared with the untreated garden soil, was taller, 

 stronger, and greener than the non-treated wheat. 

 It was well in spike on June 15, and the tillering was 

 better, averaging twenty-three ears as compared with 

 fifteen. The humogen was applied on the scale of 5 cwt . 

 to the acre, and used as a top-dressing. The culms 

 were very much heavier, and the untreated plants 

 were in comparison very yellow, dwarf er, weaker, and 

 more backward in bloom. The plants showed a gain 

 of a foot in height, and the ears were i inches longer 

 and fuller. Unfortunately both treated and untreated 

 plants were beaten down during one of the heavy 

 storms, and the experiment could not be concluded. 



