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beets grown on land very rich in nitrates. The water plane at the 
point where these beets were grown was five feet below the surface 
but the ground was, as is very often the case, quite wet. The water 
per se probably had but little to do with the shape of the beets, for as 
Plate III. The upper photograph represents beets grown with 1,000 pounds 
and the lower one beets grown with 1,250 pounds sodic nitrate per acre. 
stated elsewhere we have grown well shaped beets on land in which 
the water plane at no time during the season fell to more than three 
and one-half feet below the surface and at times rose even to the 
surface. This land, too, was very rich in the ordinary alkali salts, 
