Sowing Sentence Examples

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  • The sowing and planting season is from June to August, and the reaping season from December to February.

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  • I was sowing wild oats at that age and not thinking clearly.

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  • You'll also read about sowing parsnips in February.

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  • Proerosia, at which prayers were offered for an abundant harvest, before the land was ploughed for sowing.

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  • For the sowing of seed see Sowing.

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  • Form and repair lawns and grass walks by laying turf and sowing perennial grass-seeds; mow the lawns frequently; plant evergreens.

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  • If the plants are started early in the greenhouse, they are likely to spend themselves before fall, and therefore a later sowing should be provided.

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  • Pea Forage Yield Forage yields of peas increased significantly with increased sowing density in all but the late pea harvest in 1999.

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  • As he went along he looked with pleasure at the year's splendid crop of corn, scrutinized the strips of ryefield which here and there were already being reaped, made his calculations as to the sowing and the harvest, and asked himself whether he had not forgotten any of the prince's orders.

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  • In contrast, a mere 10% had both adequate seedbed moisture and more than 10mm of rain within a month of sowing.

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  • It flowers a couple of months after sowing.

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  • Young Gardeners Gardening Project Get a head start in the GardenAdvice great sunflower competition with this step-by-step guide to sowing sunflowers.

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  • Sowing to a short-term crop followed by further surface cultivations may be best before establishing a long-term sward.

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  • Turnips Begin to harvest and continue sowing turnips Begin to harvest and continue sowing turnips until the end of the month.

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  • Applied on fertility leys in the autumn before sowing vetch and before beans.

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  • The Latin proverb has it that "Turdus malum sibi cacat"; but the sowing is really effected by the bird wiping its beak, to which the seeds adhere, against the bark of the tree on which it has alighted.

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  • It is frequently raised at once by sowing the acorns on the ground where the trees are required, the fruit being gathered in the autumn as soon as shed, and perfectly ripe seeds selected; but the risk of destruction by mice and other vermin is so great that transplanting from a nursery-bed is in most cases to be preferred.

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  • Rising above the Rock is Cole's Hill, where during their first winter in America the Pilgrims buried half their number, levelling the graves and sowing grain over them in the spring in order to conceal their misfortunes from the Indians.

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  • Even the earliest forms of intensive cultivation demand the practice of the fundamental processes of husbandry - ploughing, manuring, sowing, weeding, reaping.

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  • The seed is now set; usually it is thoroughly mixed with a relatively large quantity of fine ashes, sand or meal, to facilitate thin and even sowing, and the surface of the bed is afterwards lightly brushed over with a broom; it is very important to avoid burying the seed at all deeply; a light covering of cloth or muslin, raised on short sticks, is often stretched over the bed.

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  • Some regard the legend as a chthonian myth, Aea (Colchis) being the under-world in the Aeolic religious system from which Jason liberates himself and his betrothed; others, in view of certain resemblances between the story of Jason and that of Cadmus (the ploughing of the field, the sowing of the dragon's teeth, the fight with the Sparti, who are finally set fighting with one another by a stone hurled into their midst), associate both with Demeter the corn-goddess, and refer certain episodes to practices in use at country festivals, e.g.

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  • Click here for easy to follow instructions on sowing radishes.

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  • Try spring onions, lettuce, radish, dill and coriander, sowing in a small drill every three to four weeks.

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  • Practices like early sowing of winter cereals (eg In August rather than October) tended to increase the use of insecticides.

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  • Dr. Barrow begins by sowing the seeds of fear with a spooky bedtime tale.

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  • Turnips Begin to harvest and continue sowing turnips until the end of the month.

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  • Ellen labored on her uncle 's farm, plowing, sowing and harvesting.

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  • Late winter is the best season for sowing seeds.

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  • In March and April the seed should be sown in the open ground in a free soil and an open situation; but if the plants are intended for pot culture, the sowing should be two months earlier.

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  • Each plant should be allowed quite 8 inches for development, and in hot weather those from the latest sowing should be well watered.

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  • They flower about eight weeks after sowing, and remain in bloom a long time.

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  • Sowing themselves freely, they are apt to become too numerous and somewhat "starved," so that they are best grown in large groups.

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  • I have found some gain from late sowing in July, the May-sown plants dying off in the August heats.

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  • Seeds germinate readily in a cold frame, but a few years elapse between sowing and flowering.

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  • The plant does best in rich sandy loam and planted in bold masses, which flower from July to October, according to the time of sowing.

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  • To produce the best results these charming plants must be strongly grown, and robust specimens can only be obtained by thin sowing.

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  • In light dry soils early autumn sowing is recommended, sufficiently early to permit the young plants to attain some size before the setting-in of winter.

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  • Fair success, however, may be looked for, especially in good soils, where spring sowing will often yield excellent results, while the advantages of autumn sowing are best seen in light sandy soils.

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  • It will also grow well if the seed is not sown till the following spring, but by sowing immediately nearly a year is gained.

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  • Try sowing another group of seeds in trays, following the directions in our article on seed germination.

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  • The work on agriculture' of Ibn-al-Awam, who lived in the 12th century A.D., treats of the varieties of soils, manuring, irrigation, ploughing, sowing, harvesting, stock, horticulture, arboriculture and plant diseases, and is a lasting record of their skill and industry.

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  • In 1892, at Warwick, the competitions related to ploughs - single furrow (a) for light land, (b) for strong land, (c) for press drill and broad-cast sowing; two-furrow; three-furrow; digging (a) for light land, (b) for heavy land; and one-way ploughs.

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  • The cotton from each is collected and kept separately, and at the end of the season carefully examined and weighed, and a final selection is then made which reduces the number to perhaps five; the cotton from each of these plants is gained separately and the seed preserved for sowing.

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  • Great care is necessary in attending to the watering of the young and delicate seedlings, which are ready for transplanting in from fifty to sixty days after sowing.

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  • Ripening is complete in about 35 days after topping or about 155 days after sowing.

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  • As even distribution at a uniform depth is necessary, the drill is preferred to the broadcast-seeder for barley sowing.

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  • They are usually strong enough to flower the third year from this sowing.

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  • Esparto may be raised from seed, but cannot be harvested for twelve or fifteen years after sowing.

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  • This view of existence as an endless and concomitant sowing and reaping is accepted by learned and unlearned alike as accounting for those inequalities in human life which might otherwise lead men to doubt the justice of God.

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  • A crop of very large bulbs may also be secured by sowing about the beginning of September, and transplanting early in spring to very rich soil.

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  • Brown Globe, including Magnum Bonum; White Globe; Yellow Danvers; White Spanish, in its several forms; Trebons, the finest variety for autumn sowing, attaining a large size early, ripening well, and keeping good till after Christmas; Ailsa Craig; Ronsham Park Hero; James's Keeping; Cranston's Excelsior; Blood Red, strong-flavoured.

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  • Plant endive and lettuce at the foot of a south wall to stand the winter; plant out cabbages from the chief autumn sowing.

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  • It is essential, in sowing seeds now, that they be well firmed in the soil.

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  • The meadow should be ready by August for sowing with one of the mixtures of grass-seeds already given.

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  • They germinate only in the second year after sowing; in the course of their first year the seedlings attain a height of 6 to 12 in.

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  • It may be propagated by suckers and layers, by grafting and by sowing.

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  • This is a tedious and expensive process, and hence the importance of sowing the crop on land as free as possible from weeds of all kinds.

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  • The important part that these bacteria play in agriculture led to the introduction in Germany of a commercial product (the socalled " nitragin ") consisting of a pure culture of the bacteria, which is to be sprayed over the soil or applied to the seeds before sowing.

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  • The first sowing produces the hardiest plants, the yield of the other two depending.

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  • The soil of the Hawash valley proved particularly suitable for raising this crop. In the high plateaus the planting of seeds begins in May, in the lower plateaus and the plains in June, but in certain parts where the summer is long and rain abundant sowing and reaping are going on at the same time.

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  • Here the first period of Disraeli's public life came to an end, a period of preliminaries and flourishes, and of what he himself called sowing his political wild oats.

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  • While a number of ferns can be multiplied vegetatively, by buds formed on the leaves and in other ways, the regular mode of propagation is by sowing the spores shed from the ripe sporangia.

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  • No cure is possible, but as winter wheat suffers less than spring wheat, early sowing is recommended.

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  • Much can be done in this case to clean the seed before sowing by immersing it in hot water or in some solution that will kill the spores without injuring the grain.

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  • Owing to these controversies the real work of the early Irish missionaries in converting the pagans of Britain and central Europe, and sowing the seeds of culture there, is apt to be overlooked.

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  • The seed is also a valuable product; the finest is kept for sowing, a large quantity is sold for the food of cage birds, while the remainder is sent to the oil mills to be crushed.

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  • The time of sowing, the quantity of seed per acre (about three bushels) and the method of gathering and retting are very similar to those of flax; but, as a rule, it is a hardier plant than flax, does not possess the same pliability, is much coarser and more brittle, and does not require the same amount of attention during the first few weeks of its growth.

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  • If you started sowing carrots earlier in the year with cloche protection, some of them may need thinning for end of March onwards.

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  • Grazing with sheep will reduce it, as will sowing clover into an infested pasture.

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  • Peasants who lack capital are effectively restricted to sowing low-value crops, whilst the capitalist sector only produces more profitable crops.

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  • Chlorophos (PBI) containing diazinon & chlorophos Soil Pest Killer (Miracle) containing pirimiphos-methyl Both are dusts used at sowing or transplanting.

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  • Sow broad leaved endive and make a further sowing of curly endive.

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  • This will make a small furrow suitable for sowing your seeds in, which will be perfectly straight.

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  • My tip would be to sow green manures well in advance of their last possible sowing dates, " says Sally.

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  • But earlier sowing of crops put pressure on seed set of sub clover, leading to its replacement by other self-regenerating annual legumes.

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  • Add fertilizer 10 days before sowing, 2oz super phosphate, 1oz potash per square yard.

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  • Sowing Seeds should either be broadcast by hand or using a seeder suitable for grass seed.

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  • Many of us have already started by sowing annuals, chili peppers, brussel sprouts etc indoors.

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  • In the introductory paper in Maxwell's collection we are told that " The practice of draining, enclosing, summer fallowing, sowing flax, hemp, rape, turnip and grass seeds, planting cabbages after, and potatoes with, the plough, in fields of great extent, is introduced; and that, according to the general opinion, more corn grows now yearly where it was never known to grow before, these twenty years last past, than perhaps a sixth of all that the kingdom was in use to produce at any time before."

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  • He was as careful of the sowing and reaping of the peasants' hay and corn as of his own, and few landowners had their crops sown and harvested so early and so well, or got so good a return, as did Nicholas.

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  • The whole summer, from spring sowing to harvest, he was busy with the work on his farm.

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  • Sowing rate 35g/m2 on bare areas and 20g/m2 on thin areas.

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  • In April and May the rivers have opened, the snow has disappeared, and the opportunity has been afforded the farmer of sowing his grain.

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  • Inquilinaggio is a form of lease by which the landlord, and sometimes the tenant, makes over to tenant or subtenant the sowing of corn.

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  • The pear may be readily raised by sowing the pips of ordinary cultivated or of wilding kinds, these forming what are known as free or pear stocks, on which the choicer varieties are grafted for increase.

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  • Next came the sowing, the seed being pressed into the soil by the feet of sheep which were driven over the fields.

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  • He was thus led to adopt that system of sowing his crops in rows or drills, so wide apart as to admit of tillage of the intervals, both by ploughing and hoeing, being continued until they had well-nigh arrived at maturity.

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  • A more rational system of cropping now began to take the place of the thriftless and barbarous practice of sowing successive crops of corn until the land was utterly exhausted, and then leaving it foul with weeds to recover its power by an indefinite period of rest.

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  • In either case an adequate but not excessive rainfall, increasing from the time of sowing to the period of active growth, and then decreasing as the bolls ripen, with a dry picking season, combined with sunny days and warm nights, provide the ideal conditions for successful cotton cultivation.

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  • These pickers go carefully over the field, usually just before the second picking, and gather ripe cotton from the best plants only; this selected seed cotton is ginned separately, and the seed used for sowing the next year's crop.

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  • The method of using them most frequently adopted consists in applying them to the seeds of leguminous plants before sowing, the seed being dipped for a time in a liquid containing the bacteria.

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  • The legislatures of Massachusetts and Connecticut approved of these proposed amendments and sent commissioners to Washington to urge their adoption, but before their arrival the war had closed, and not only did the amendments fail to receive the approval of any other state, but the legislatures of nine states expressed their disapproval of the Hartford Convention itself, some charging it with sowing "seeds of dissension and disunion."

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  • The two last-named must not be applied direct to growing crops, but to the soil some weeks in advance of sowing or cropping.

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  • Spinach, corn salad, radishes and carrots are the favourite crops for sowing between others such as lettuces and cauliflowers.

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  • But little can be done in the northern states except to prepare manure, and get sashes, tools, &c., in working order; but in sections of the country where there is little or no frost the hardier kinds of seeds and plants may be sown and planted, such as asparagus, cabbage, cauliflower, carrot, leek, lettuce, onion, parsnip, peas, spinach, turnip, &c. In any section where these seeds can be sown in open ground, it is an indication that hotbeds may be started for the sowing of such tender vegetables as tomatoes, egg and pepper plants, &c.; though, unless in the extreme southern states, hotbeds should not be started before the beginning or middle of February.

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  • The mixture of seeds for sowing a water-meadow demands much consideration, and must be modified according to local circumstances of soil, aspect, climate and drainage.

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  • The following mixtures of seeds (stated in pounds per acre) have been recommended for sowing on water-meadows, Messrs Sutton of Reading, after considerable experience, regarding No.

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  • The latter may be his original form, as a god of fertility, before whom the king ceremoniously breaks up the ground for sowing or cuts the ripe corn.

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  • The land, having been ploughed in autumn, is prepared for sowing by working it with the grubber, harrow and roller, until a fine tilth is obtained.

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  • The first step would be, to obtain seed from healthy trees growing in the coldest climate and at the greatest altitude in its native country, sowing these very largely, and in a variety of soils and situations, in a part of France where the climate is somewhat but not much more extreme.

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  • The time of sowing extends from the middle of March to the middle of June, while the reaping, which depends upon the time of sowing and upon the weather, is performed from the end of June to the middle of October.

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  • The production of this staple is carried on generally under the same conditions as in Bengal; but the times of sowing and reaping and the names given to the several crops vary much in different parts of the province.

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  • After sowing, the land is harrowed, and the young plants are hoed and weeded, chiefly by women and children, from early spring until the time of flowering.

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  • The hardy annuals may be sown in the open ground during the latter part of March or beginning of April, as the season may determine, for the weather should be dry and open, and the soil in a free-working condition before sowing is attempted.

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  • Any who expect to get early cabbage, cauliflower, lettuce or radishes, while planting or sowing is delayed until the time of sowing tomato and egg plant in May, are sure to be disappointed of a full crop. Frequent rotation of crops should be practised in the vegetable garden, in order to head off insects and diseases; and also to make the best use of the land.

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