EXPERIMENTS OF THE BUREAU OP PLANT INDUSTRY. 



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experiment, one pile being from a cultivated plat, the next one from 

 an uncultivated plat, and thus alternating. Figure 5 illustrates the 



Fig. 3.— Shocks from the corn experiment at the Arlington Experimental Farm, 1908. The shock at 

 the right is from a cultivated plat, the next one from an uncultivated plat, and so on. 



experiment of Mr. J. J. Lee, Cynthiana, Ky., in 1909, showing the 

 uncultivated plat and the cultivated plat. Figure 6 shows the 





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Fig. 4.— Ears of corn from the same shocks shown in figure 3. The corn at the left was cultivated, 

 that In the next pile uncultivated, and so on. 



fodder and ear corn from the experiment of Mr. Geoffrey Morgan, 

 Whites Station, Ky., in 1910, both cultivated and uncultivated. 



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