APPENDIX A 



NITROBACTERINE AND LEGUMINOUS PLANTS 



IN connection with the use of nitrobacterine, in over 

 80 per cent, of the reports made to Professor Bottomley 

 there was evidence that the use of the material had 

 shown a distinct advantage gained by the crops 

 through inoculation. As a method similar to Professor 

 Bottomley's is still being employed in America, the 

 original American method having been abandoned, the 

 following reports, which were published by Country 

 Life in a pamphlet, Seed and Soil Inoculation for 

 Leguminous Crops, in 1908, may be of interest. It has 

 been found since that many of the failures were due 

 to preventable causes. The successes obtained, however, 

 remain of considerable historic and practical interest. 

 As in the original pamphlet, the reports are grouped 

 by counties. 



CORNWALL. 



MARAZION Peas. The peas were a great success. 

 Inoculation of soil and seed returned a good 30 per cent, 

 more than only seed inoculation, and the seed inoculation 

 showed a good 20 per cent, better crop than the farmyard 

 manured peas. Inoculation in both cases rendered a 

 fortnight earlier marketing possible over the manured. 



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