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14 circumstances would seem to afford a good opportunity of testing whether an excess of nitrate—despite there being an abundance of mineral food in the soil—had proved in any way injurious to the quality of the hops. Mr. Chapman was therefore asked to "place" the samples with special care, and his report is as follows, with the exception that the proper letters and descriptions of the plots are now substituted for the arbitrary marks which were placed on the samples themselves, in order that Mr. Chapman might again be entirely unbiassed by any information as to the origin of the samples. Mr. Chapman says:—