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EXPERIMENTAL STATIONS — REPOET FOR 1S79. 



suffered severely from a sbake during the violent gales of 1st 

 and 22(1 September, tlie loss being estimated at 4 bushels per 

 acre, and though the loss was pretty ecpial over the whole of the 

 plots, yet plots 1, 2, 3 and 4, owing to their proximity to the 

 boundary hedge, suffered rather less than the others. 



On arranging the results of the first ten plots as we did for 

 the turnip crop, so as to compare the produce with dissolved and 

 undissolved phosphates, we obtain the following numljers : — 



Undissolved Phosphates. 



Dissolved Phosphates. 



We thus see that the advantage is in faA'cmr of the dissolved 

 phosphate in every particular, the increase of dressed grain being 

 about three bushels per acre, a quantity which corresponds to 

 the amount of barley used as seed. But the contrast is made 

 still more striking if we multiply the number of bushels per 

 acre into their weight per bushel, and add their respective weights 

 of light grain. We thus arrive at the numbers contained in the 



