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might enable experimenters to adopt more satisfactory methods for 
this character of work, the following experiments were executed: 
A piece of ground exceeding 175 feet in length was selected for 
the test. The soil was a clay-loam, even in character, but for one 
feature, that of moisture, the western part of the ground being a 
trifle elevated on the eastern side, and somewhat drier. This piece of 
land, 175 by 33 feet, was plowed, harrowed and worked in a most thor- 
ough manner. After plowing, acid phosphate at the rate of 400 lbs. 
per acre was applied, and harrowed in. After a thorough pulveriza- 
tion of the soil, the varieties of wheat mentioned below were planted 
eighteen inches apart, in rows extending the length of the field, the 
seed in the rows being two inches distant, The depth of planting 
was one and one-half inches, and there was one row of each variety. 
This experiment was designed to occupy the place now filled by plat 
methods, for obtaining the comparative productiveness of varieties. 
While it is true that an equal number of plants of one variety may 
require a different area of ground from the same number of plants of 
another variety to come to perfect development, owing to the tillering 
or root habit, at present we have no means for determining the rela- 
tive area of ground each variety should occupy in order to meet these 
requirements. Consequently, the following varieties were all planted 
under equal conditions, so nearly as could be secured: 
