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made, July 24 th., dry weather occiirred which so hindered the 

 growtn^that the experiment was seriously impaired. There 

 was a poor stand of soy beans in all cases although they were 

 covered a fair depth and showed good viability in the labor- 

 atory. 



— INJURIES SUSTAINED — 



Besides the unfavorable season curtailing growth and 

 injuring the stand, a severe wind -storm broke off some plants 

 and cattle injured the plats as follows; 12 and 13 were so 

 severely injured as to throw them out of the experiment; 

 26 was nearly as badly injured; L5, 14 and 25 were injured 

 less than 26; some others were sliglitly injured. 



— HARVESTING — 



The injuries above noted made the harvesting a much 

 more tedious process than usual in order to secure dependable 

 results. All hills In which there was an injured stalk, and 

 all that were clearly replant, were discarded. Record was made 

 by rows of the number of hills harvested with 3 stalks, 2 

 stalks, and one stalk respectively. The rows were weighed se- 

 parately. The "weeds" in the corn and at the ends of the plats 

 were harvested separately. In the corners two representative 

 middles at each end of the plats were harvested. At the ends 

 the edges were discarded and the surface harvested carefully 



measured. 



The harvesting was done September 20th. to 24th, The 



