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each row of broad beans with the solution direct to the 

 roots. The photos I send you show the comparative 

 sizes of the bean pods at the time I commenced to pick 

 them. The inoculated ones were 7 J to 8 inches long ; the 

 non-inoculated only 4! inches long. I left four of the 

 best plants in both inoculated and non-inoculated plots 

 to grow to maturity. The average length of the pods 

 from the inoculated plants was n inches, averaging 

 8 beans to the pod; the non-inoculated 8J inches long, 

 with 6 beans. The inoculated beans were quite three 

 weeks earlier than the others. 



Peas. The peas were treated in the same way, and 

 inoculation was equally successful. The inoculated were 

 ready quite two weeks before the others. My garden is 

 old orchard land, and the ground received no manure 

 other than that from the grass which was trenched in 

 about June, 1906. 



SUSSEX. 



BATTLE Clover. I sprayed part of a field of grass, 

 cut over each year then pastured, with the culture 

 solution. Now the sprayed part shows a great deal 

 more white clover than the rest of the field. On a 

 piece of very poor land of 7-year-old pasture I sowed 

 inoculated white clover seed. The result has been a 

 great improvement in the clover compared with other 

 portion of the field, which had formerly the best 

 clover. 



BRIGHTON Peas. We planted the inoculated peas in 

 the poorest ground we possess, and they have done 

 exceedingly well. 



Sweet Peas. We also sowed some inoculated sweet 

 peas on a cinder path at the top of a low wall, and they 

 have grown and blossomed very freely, and looked very 



