14 BULLETIN 836, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
The season of 1914 was not favorable to high yields. The rain- 
fall for the first four months of the year was below normal, which 
left the soil without much stored moisture. One good soaking rain 
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