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in somewhat lesser degree. This again brings us to the con- 
drought, and as we have seen in the case of lettuce, radium 
this discrepancy is due to the fact that the turnips continued 
to grow where the seeds germinated, while the egg plants, of 
rather large size, were attacked by drought just after they had 
bed. 
Some little light has been thrown upon the effects of radium 
upon plant diseases. The early part of the season was very wet, 
and the tendency to blight in cucumbers, squashes, and musk- 
melons, to smut in sweet corn, and to fruit rot in eggplants and 
tomatoes was jaca marked. ae setiee in the radium- 
treated plots ucumbers 
and squashes appeared to suffer most where there was mos 
R A F, the me! 
was most iu: where ‘ther , while late corn 
Sas ee oa re eae in the different 
an is probably the reason for the small percentage of increase 
in the crop of Golden Bantam as against 50 per cent. increase 
in Country Gentleman, from the effects of the radium. Had all 
smutted ears from the former been good, and therefore weighed 
with the tae the yield from the.R A F plots would have been 
much nee 
atoes oe eggplants suffered very little from rot on the 
ee treated plots, but severely where there was little or no 
RA F. In the case of eggplants the ratio of damage on the 
different plots ran | rps the same, but inversely, with 
the amount of R A F applied 
