REPORT ON THE APPLICATION OF SEWAGE. 



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EXPERIMENT ON BARLEY AFTER ITALIAN RYE-GRASS. 



1864. 

 No. 3 Field. 



This year I sowed the four plots of one acre each in No. 3 

 field, which had been the subject of experiment with Italian rye- 

 grass the previous year, with barley. The Sewage was applied 

 in the same proportions to the same two plots as before from 

 January 15th to April 2nd, when the field was sown. The sea- 

 son was unusually hot and dry, and the crops on the manured 

 plots most luxuriant, but in consequence they were very much 

 lodged before harvest, which told against the produce, especially 

 in the case of the plot manured with the water cart. Plot 1, it 

 will be remembered, had no manure for two years. 



EXPERIMENT ON OAT CROP. 

 186 3. 

 This year I made an experiment on a field of 9 acres, sown 

 with oats after wheat, I had four plots measured off, about one 

 acre each, the first had no manure, the second and third had dif- 

 ferent quantities of Sewage, and the fourth had 1| cwt. of 

 Nitrate of Soda, the remainder of the field was also dressed with 



