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the potato plant feed principally from different areas of the soil, we 
can scarcely believe that the two crops interfered much with each 
other so far as robbing each the other of fertility is concerned, and 
as the corn plants bore normal yield and were not shaded, so the 
potato plants bore small crop and were shaded. Hence we suspect 
that the shading was the principal cause at work to the detriment of — 
the potato seeding. 
Corroborative evidence toward this conclusion is offered by plats 
D 5, 6, 8 and.9, when the effect of thinning the young plants to 
one stalk to an eye is discussed. 
Hyeroscoric PRopERTIES OF GRAIN. 
Clawson Wheat. 
In the following experiment the grain was put into netting bags 
and suspended from the ceiling in the laboratory. Clawson wheat, 
harvested July 16, threshed out July 18, four bags containing 1000 
grammes and two bags containing 500 grammes each : 
Per cent of loss 
Grammes by drying. 
momeweigntrdtly 1854 oe eee 50002 0 Filer 
July 97 foes Seats 4310.4 13.80 
PAIOPLIG tie exar ar phylgi aes aisca avi 4133.5 VELSS 
PUTS Ge Lees oe seara of die: shy 215. 4070.7 18.59 
PAAIUBE LNs ea ole vw wird es 4021.3 19.58 
PMS Us Oi es ween eta PS 3969 .2 20.62 
AUGUST Oh oie cctin eos a. 4001.5 19.97 
September 14............. 3983.8 20.338 
September Pon EUS ee pepe 3980.8 20.389 
HOD LOM DOR. LO} 4 can tcheta alse ooh 4023 .2 19.54 
WELD ETc tans once 4051.8 18.97 
Giotiberel wa oilers woke 4026.3 19.48 
Woventber 22’. so. ss eee 3796.9 94.06 
A second series, four bags of 1000 grammes each, taken from bin 
September 4, weighed: 
Total weight September 4............. 4000.0 + aA 
eptember 14 sh. Sete ers 3888.9 2.07 
DOPLODIDEY 2h Seance 5.0 3875 .0 3.12 
HeMteniueN AS”. <5 tcl ae touts 3913.9 2.15 
BYGEOBOT a Oso dei ore ws giece vce nese 8937.1 1.57 
Octoper Las co csir nares soe) 3912.7 2.18 
EN GMEMA DEI 2s seo a toe! daie ee 3675 .0 8.12 
Between October 12 and November 22, the laboratory in which 
the samples were kept was warmed in the usual manner of a dwel- 
ling room, by steam heat. 
