Show the battle in the meadow all the cultivated plants ot of the farm t arni as a rule have an easy time their life is BO so to speak one of luxury they are supplied with abundant fd ia in the highly tn en riched soil each individual plant ia is given eiven abundant room and is not crowded by others of its own kind or obliged to struggle for ita its food with hungry strangers the weeds but life ia is not mude made so easy fur for all the plants of if the farm in gray grau lands for example they are crowded together and an individual plant husa struggle for existence not only with others of its kiu kind but with plants of many other sorts isome of theae these different plants by the peculiar form of their roots get possession of the soil and keep out other some by buc increase rease of ot their above grown portions ch choke k 0 and crowd their neigh borsand the batile of life goes on in human warfare the best beat fed army army as a rule fights the best and in the battle of the meadow the feeding of the contending plants bae has much to do with the results how flow in the contest one plant or another its i favored or not by the supplier of food V is well yell illustrated by tit the 0 experimental P peri eri mental grasa grass plots at roth amsted the experiments 0 alien there made by memra em lawee and gil bert have a value over moat others on account of their permanent character much bluch of the so called elpe experimenting rini enting teaches nothing the result from a single trial has little value but where experiments as at kothari ted are continued for twenty five successive years there is little op opportunity ort unity for false conclusion conclusions K clu cl dr thurber in american agriculturist for january |