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one half thus representing the barley crop after cake-feeding, 

 and the other after corn-feeding on the land. 



The swede crop of 1910 varied from 10^ to 14 tons per 

 acre. This was made up to a uniform amount of 12 tons per 

 aci-e on each half of the land. The sheep receiving cake 

 consumed 8 cwt. of linseed cake, 8 cwt. of undecorticated 

 cotton cake, together with •! cwt. of chaff, this latter being a 

 mixture of oat-straw and clover hay. The sheep receiving 

 corn consumed 8 cwt. of barley and 8 cwt. of oats, together 

 with 4 cwt. of chaff similar to that used in the case of the cake- 

 feeding, xlfter the sheep had fed off the roots, the land was 

 ploughed, March 18 — April 8, 1911, and " Goldthorpe " barley, 

 at the rate of 9 pecks per acre, was drilled over the whole area 

 on April 13. It came up very well, and formed a striking 

 contrast to the continuous barley grown in the same field. The 

 crop, after corn-feeding, always, however, looked rather 

 better than that after cake-feeding, and this was borne out in 

 the harvest results. The barley was cut on August 2 and 

 carted on August 4, the results being given in Table IV. 



Table IV. — Series C. Rotation Experiment. Barley, 1911. 



Stackyard Field — Produce per acre. 



It will be noted that the corn-feeding produced nearly 5 

 Ijushels per acre more corn and 3i cwt. per acre more straw 

 than did the cake-feeding. It is difficult to account for this, 

 except by the peculiarity of the season, though it may be 

 mentioned that the land was in nicer tiltth after the sheep had 

 done feeding with corn than it was after the cake-feeding, 

 there having been a good deal of rain when the sheep were 

 finishing their cake, and the land being somewhat "puddled" 

 in consequence. 



On examining the corn the valuer found that grown after the 

 corn-feeding to be much mellower than the other. The cake- 

 fed barley had many hard corns and was not nearly so uniform 

 in size. 



