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lot from which the seed was selected. All seeds appearing green 
or injured in any way were rejected. : 
The ground in which the seed was planted comprised two of a 
series of one-twentieth acre plats, G, 1 and 2, broken from a piece 
of meadow land in 1876. Instead of planting one piat to each 
of the selections made, the beans were planted in alternate rows, 
beginning with the large seed, then a row of small was planted, 
and this was continued, making the same number of rows of each 
planted on a plat, thus giving a more even distribution of the 
seed and eliminating in a measure the variations of soil. Care 
was also taken to plant the same number of hills in each row with 
an equal number of beans in each hill. There has been no fer- 
tilizer used on the ground under culture for the purpose of these 
experiments at any time in the three years named. 
The plats were given ordinary field culture with horse and hand 
hoes, and when the crop matured each row was harvested and 
placed in a sack and numbered. They were then taken to the 
_ barn and hand threshed. Careful weights were taken before 
threshing of the total crop, and ‘then of the beans. After 
repeated trials it was found impossible to weigh back the straw 
with any degree of accuracy, and the difference between the total 
weight and the weight of beans was taken for that of the straw. 
The table shows the results of the trials made in 1887. 
EXPERIMENT WITH BraAns, LARGE AND SMALL SEED, 1887. 
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SELEcTED Laras Seep. No.1. | SELECTED SMautu SEED. No. 2. 
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Total | Weight | Weight | ‘Total | Weight | Weight 
weight. | of beans. | of straw. | weight. | of beans. | of straw. 
—————EE AEE RO ceca eS 
Pounds. | Pounds. ; Pounds. | Pounds. | Pounds. | Pounds. 
2.09 1.28 81 | 1.07 68 | .39 
1.78 1,10 67 | 1.75 .95 .719 
1.89 1.01 BT | 2.00 1.20 19. 
1.84 1.14 TO 1.40 84 56. 
gs 1.68 .96 1 | 1.23 .78 45 
1.79 1.10 68 | 1.42 84 .5T 
2.04 1.21 82 | 1.43 87 56. 
1.75 1.06 .68 1.24 1.03 .60 
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