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a sample taken in one section of it to a depth of ten inches having 
yielded 2.5 percent soluble in water. This section of the field 
yielded, the third consecutive year that it was planted to beets, a 
Plate IV. The upper photograph represents beets grown on land very rich 
i n nitrates; the lower one beets grown on g-ood land ._ 
crop that would compare favorably in regard to shape, size and 
sugar content with the beets represented in Plate IV, lower figure. 
The beets represented in this plate grown in 1910 on a good, sandy 
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