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the unshaded strips the portions which have been manured, each 

 naturally differently. These manured and unmanured lands I have 

 called sections, and named them A, B, up to H. There are three 

 unmanured sections for each crop, and five manured ; and for the 

 purpose of comparing yields you will see there is an unmanured 

 section adjoining every manured. These manured bands were intro- 

 duced into the field to get answers to questions of fertilization, to tell 

 us to Avhat extent the success of a crop depended upon soil conditions, 

 apart from climatic. For answers as to the comparative yields 

 between the different crops, say, between maize and amber cane, all we 

 require to do is to take the average yield in each case of all the sections, 

 and compare them, or we could take the average yield of the manured 

 sections only in each case, and compare them, or the unmanured 

 sections, or the maximum crops in each case. Such comparisons will 

 be of great value, for we shall learn through them, whether maize 

 produces a heavier bulk of forage, under similar coiiditions of growth, 

 than amber cane, or amber cane than Kaffir corn, and so on. In the 

 Y field, the system is the same, although the crops vary a little, and 

 in the Z set the same thing occurs also. After this explanation then 

 there will be little difficulty in understanding the comparisons I shall 

 make later on, as also the figures of the following table showing the 

 average yields of the different crops in a varying number of fields. 



Tables Showing the Average Yields of the Various Crops in Central, 

 Southern and Western Victoria. 



From section 



showing maximum 



returns. 



Maize . . average of 2o crops 



Amber Cane ,, 21 ,, 



Kaffir Corn. . ,, 16 ,, [ 



Egyptian Corn ,, 15 ,, 



Japanese Millet(barnyard) 14 ,, | 



Pearl Millet ,, 6 ,, [ 



Planters' Friend ,, (3 ,, | 



Teosinte .. ,, 4 ,, ; 



Rape (Dwarf Essex) ,, 20 ,, ' 



Kale .. ., 10 ,, 



Lucerne .. ,, H ,, 



Cowpeas (clay) ,, 2 



Mangels, Long Red ,, — ,, 



,, Yellow Globe ,. — ■■ i 



Pumpkins .. ,, — ,, 



Beet .. ,. 156 ,, 



Tons. 



9-20 



1109 



8-29 



639 



9-55 



13-91 



12 55 



1717 



17-18 



902 



2 44 



15 16 



14 72 



.Average yield per 

 acre for 5 years at the 



New Jersey 

 Experimental Station 



Tons. 

 10 

 10 



8 



12 

 16 



A comparison of the figures will bring out great points of interest. 

 The average yields will, doubtless, especially in the case of maize, 

 appear small to those Avho have heard of the 50 and 60 tons to the 

 acre supposed to be procurable from this crop. Such yields are, as a 

 rule calculated from the results obtained from a few square feet, and 

 are, in most cases misleading. As an average for even the soils of 



