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TABLE SHOWING THE Best anD Worst Brean Crops (continued). 
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4.311 6.784 
4.302 6.634 
4,219 - 6.354 
4.199 6.224 
4.070 5.912 
3.851 5.859 
3.813 5.101 
3.797 4.769 
3.381 4.756 
3.284 4.643 
2.107 3.832 
1.122 3.086 
0.912 2.904 
11.233 
10.936 
10.553 
10.294 
10.078 
9.735 
8.952 
8.150 
8.040 
7.629 
6.750 
4.208 
3.816 
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Owing to the unfavorable season, which will be described further 
on, the barley crops were all so small that the results tabulated above 
are hardly worth discussing. It will be noticed, however, that in more 
than half of the trials with mixed fertilizers the yield of grain was 
larger than in the case of the best crop obtained by the use of farm 
manure (see beyond), and that five sixths of these crops were better 
than the mean of the four trials with farm and stable manure. The 
ruta-baga crops also, though the season was favorable for the growth 
of this plant, suffered so much and so irregularly from the depreda- 
tions of the turnip-fly, that no comparisons can be made between the 
several squares. Hence no general table of the results obtained with 
this crop has been given. For example, there were only 30 ruta-baga 
plants harvested from Square F 8 against 136 plants from K. It can 
be said only that excellent crops of ruta-bagas were obtained in every 
instance by the use of the mixed fertilizers. The individual plants 
were large and fair and sound. With but two exceptions, each of the 
squares yielded some roots that weighed from three to six kilogrammes 
apiece. The contrast between these well-fed roots and the miserable 
specimens obtained from the exhausted soil of Sections C and D was 
most striking. Many of the latter were smaller than a man’s finger. 
Upon Square D 1, for example, there were 140 plants, but the best 
root among them weighed 22 grammes. So, too, the best root from 
Square C 4 weighed 47 grammes. 
