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Journal of Agriculture. 



[lo April, 1909. 



was harrowed twice and manured with cow manure at the rate of twelve 

 loads to the acre. The seed was sown on the 12th October and ger- 

 minated on the 23rd of that month, slightly in advance of the four 

 other varieties — 12th to 20th November. AH the plants were 1 foot 

 high. The Longfellow variety came early into flower when only 3 feet 

 high. The other varieties did not flower until the first week in January. 

 On 1 2th February, Longfellow was 3 ft. 6 in. high, heavily cobbed, and 

 in the glazed stage of maturity, and i chain cut weighed 17 tons 13 cwts. 

 No. 2 (Solomon's Pride) 6 feet high, well cobbed and stooled, weighed 

 23 tons 11 cwts. No. 3 (Early Yellow Dent) cobbed up well, rather light 

 in stalk and stooled badly. Weighed 17 tons 15 cwts. No. 4 (Hickory 



14. (5) MNEIV DAY, 3 It. IN., All;. GLUKGE HOPE's PLOT. 



King) stood out verv much as the best variety in this plot. It stooled well, 

 with abundance of succulent leaves, col>be(l well and weighed 27 tons 

 10 cwts. No. 5 (Flat Red) made good growth, stooled well, and was next 

 to Solomon's P.ridc in wciglit. Weighed 20 tons 16 cwts. 



Effects of Continuous Surface Cultivation. 



No. 12. — Mr. Cico. Hope's crop at Caulfield. Three years ago this 

 particular land was a sandy waste, covered with bracken fern. The 

 soil for the first 18 inches is composed of a white sand, then 6 inches 

 of yellow clay oxcrlving a Ix^d of gravel. The land was ploughed 10 

 inches deep and harrowt^d and cross harrow<'(l three times. The .seed 

 was sown in drills 3 feet apart, and 4 inches deep, on the 29th Sep- 

 tember, and germinated on the 10th October. The seed was sown at 

 the rate of 12 lbs. of maize to the acre, and the land was manured 

 with twelve loads of .stable manure and i cwt. of superphosphate drilled 

 in at time of planting. The rainfall for the whole of the time was 

 3 inches 23 points and the crop received no artificial water. This speaks 



