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Owing to a severe hail storm ou 13th August, and rains before and during 

 harvest time, the crops on all the plots were very badly broken down and lodged. 

 In consequence, a large percentage of grain was shelled on the field. 



Plot 1. — Mixture of wheat, barley, oats and pease; all ripened together fairly 

 well, excepting the wheat, which was in the doughy state when the other grains 

 were ripe ; cut with the mower, because too badly lodged to be cut with the reaping 

 machine. 



Plot 2. — Mixture of wheat, barley and pease ; w heat in doughy state when other 

 grains were ripe, ITth August; badly broken down and lodged ; cut with mower. 



Plot 3. — Mixture of wheat, oats and pease ; wheat in doughy state when other 

 grains were lipe ; badly lodged ; cut with mower, 18th August. 



Plot 4. — Mixture of barley, oats and pease; badly lodged; cut with mower, 

 18th August. 



Plot 5. — Mixture of wheat, barley and oats; wheat in doughy state when other 

 grains were ripe ; cut Hth August. 



Plots 6, 7 and 8. — Mixture of wheat and pease, barley and pease, and oats and 

 pease; all badly lodged, and cut with the mower, 25th August. 



Three Acres op Grain. — The land, whereon were grown the pease, wheat and 

 barley, was manured in the spring at the rate of from 18 to 20 tons to the acre ; it 

 was ploughed, and harrowed twice; part of the pease and wheat crops were taken in, 

 and parts were injured by the enclosing of the bull paddocks which have been 

 mentioned ; part of the acre of barley was injured and part of the crop was killed 

 by water standing on it; that was owing to unusually heavy rains and the failure 

 of a drain to work etficiently ; the land for the Banner oats adjoined plot 8, and 

 received treatment similar to plots 1 to 8. 



Three Acres op Mixed Crop. — The soil was of a peaty character ; it received 

 a coating of manure at the rate of from 18 to 20 tons per acre ; it was ploughed 

 in spring, and harrowed twice ; the mixtures were the same as ou plots 1 to 5 ; they 

 were sown on 9th May and came up on 16th May; parts from the ends of each plot 

 were cut and fed green, as mentioned in the summary of the yield of crops ; three 

 acres were left to ripen. 



Root Crops. 



Three acres were prepared for sowing, one acre each of carrots, mangels 

 and turnips. The land received a coating of manure at the rate of from 18 

 to 20 tons to the acre. It was ploughed in the spring, harrowed twice, and set up 

 in drills 2^ feet apart. 



Carrots. — Five varieties were sown for comparison, but owing to the wet sea- 

 son, and water standing ou part of the plot for several days, the crops were not 

 grown under sufficiently uniform conditions to make any fiiir comparison of the 

 yield per acre of the different varieties. ''Steele's Improved Short White," " Giant 

 Short White," or "White Vosges," "Green Top Orthe," "Improved Half-long 

 White," and "Early Gem," or "Guerande," wore the varieties which were sown. 



Notes. — Sown 13ih May; came up 26th May; pulled 30th October. Total 

 weight of the five varieties, 26,785 lb. from one acie. 



Mangels. — Five varieties were sown on 13th May and came up on 26th May. 

 The names of the five varieties were " Pearce's Canadian Giant," "Golden Fleshed 

 Tankard," Giant Yellow Intermediate," "Mammoth Yellow Intermediate," and 

 "Giant Yellow Globe." From 10th June to l-±th June cut-worms destroyed about 

 two-thirds of the young plants. The spaces were sown with turnip seed on 15th 

 June. The yield of mangels was 8,110 lb., and of turnips 9,655 lb. from one acre. 



Turnips. — Five varieties of turnips were sown on 4th June. The names of the 

 varieties were, "Improved Purple Top Mammoth," "Laidlaw's Improved," "Ele- 

 phant Swede," " Hartley Bronze," and " Rennie's Prize Purple Top." They all came 

 up 10th June. They were pulled 24th October. There was a large percentage of 

 the turnips in one part of the plot diseased. The inside of the roots turned to a 

 jelly-like mass, before there was any easily recognizable evidence on the outside 



