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poor land, and speaks very well indeed for the farms you 

 so kindly set to work on our account. Now that this 

 has been such a success, may I hope you will kindly 

 furnish me with some more bacteria for the coming year, 

 or tell me how I can obtain it. 



LANCASHIRE. 



GRAPPENHALL Beans. I had a bed inoculated and 

 one without. In early stages those inoculated seemed 

 the stronger plants, but at maturity there did not seem 

 much difference ; but I shelled them myself, and consider 

 those inoculated yielded fully 30 per cent, more than 

 those non-inoculated. I planted them in ground that 

 had no manure for two years, and I consider the results 

 very satisfactory. 



WHALLEY RANGE Peas. The plot treated with cul- 

 ture was approximately a fortnight in advance of a 

 similar plot planted with untreated seed. The plants are 

 exceptionally good. 



Sweet Peas. Seeds which were treated did exception- 

 ally well, growing plants a third higher than similar 

 seeds untreated. Also on the plants which have been 

 treated with culture I notice an unusually large pro- 

 portion of flowers, with fours and occasionally fives on 



one stem. 



LEICESTERSHIRE. 



DESFORD Peas. The crop is 20 per cent, better on 

 the untreated peas. The haulm is much more robust 

 and healthier in appearance also, and flowers are still 

 being produced, while the non-inoculated plot is over. 



LINCOLNSHIRE. 



WOODHALL SPA Green Peas and Sweet Peas. Inocu- 

 lated were most successful; uninoculated but a poor crop. 



