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The Wohurn Field Experiments, 1912. 



Table V. — Green-manuring Experiment {Lansome Field). 



Produce of Wheat per acre, 1912. 



bushels of corn per acre. The limed plots did not, as in 1910, 

 exceed the mineral manured ones. 



Little can be said as to the quality of the corn, for it was 

 all bad and much below average. On the whole, the wheat on 

 Lansome Field was better than on Stackyard Field. 



It is now proposed to take a second corn crop (in 1913) on 

 Lansome Field after the wheat, instead of growing the green 

 crops again and ploughing them in. The continuation of this 

 experiment in conjunction with the series in Stackyard Field, 

 where the green crops are fed on the land, will be watched 

 with interest. 



Varieties of Barley. 



Series B. Stackyard Field. 



It was decided to compare, under the same conditions, two 

 typical varieties of barley, Archer's " Stiff-straw " and Hallett's 

 " Chevalier," and this not merely hj growing the two kinds on 

 adjoining large plots, but also by growing them on alternate 

 small strips. 



The " Archer " l)arley was kindly supplied by Mr. E. S. 

 Beaven, of Warminster, Wilts, and the " Chevalier " was 

 obtained direct from Major Hallett. Sugar-beet (manured 

 with dung and artificials) had been grown on the land in 

 1911. On April 2, 1912, the barleys were drilled at the rate 

 of 8 pecks per acre. There were sixteen strips, each about 

 t't acre in size and having twelve rows of corn. The series 

 commenced with a strip of "• Archer," then one of " Chevalier " 



