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The other four plats have green strips due to late replanting, 
but the main part of each was as follows: 
Oats on Livery watery. 
Oats on M more forward than on L. 
Oats on N more forward than on M. 
Oats on O nearly same as N, but turned more and have made 
shorter growth. 
July 27. The intermediate and unmanured strips and plats are 
changing color about even with the main field. 
Oats on plats A, B, D, are greener and behind in turning. 
Oats on plats OC, E, F, G, J and O are ripening about with 
strips and field. 
Oats on plat H apparently ripest plat. 
Oats on plat K have made a ranker growth and are about inter- 
mediate between the greener and riper plats. 
Oats on plat L have turned less than on K. 
Oats on plat M have turned rather more than on the adjacent 
intermediate strips. | 
Oats on plat N have turned nearly as on O. 
The oats were harvested August 7 and 8. They were cut with 
a self-binding reaper which made two swaths of each plat, cutting 
as wide as the drill sowed. The grain was then set up, each lot 
on its own plat, and stocd there, with two resettings to hasten the 
drying, until it was threshed August 28. 
The grain and straw from each plat was weighed and the grain 
_ cleaned in a hand mill, after which it was weighed as “clean 
erain” and “screenings,” and the difference between the sum. of 
these and the first weight added to “straw and chaff” to make up 
that column in the following table : 
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