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Table IV. 

 Digging and fitting experiment at the Albert Agricultural College, 1920-21. 



The field in which the plots were situated had suffered severely from 

 blight throughout the latter part of July and the month of August. By the 

 beginning of September the plants in more than half of the field were 

 practically dead, and those in the remainder were severely blighted, but 

 still living vigorously. The experiment was carried out on this portion of 

 the field. 



The blight made little or no headway during the comparatively dry and 

 warm period which set in about September 1st. It had progressed no further 

 at the time of the first digging on September 15th and 16th ; and it was not 

 until just after the second digging on September 27th and 28th that, as the 

 result of some showery weather, it began to spread again. Thereafter the 

 disea-se continued to develop, although somewhat slowly, so that there was 

 -still a certain amount of living foliage left when work was completed on 

 October 18th. 



