The Wohirn Field Experiments^ 1912. 



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Field is just at the junction of this latter with the Oxford 

 Clay formation. 



In Lansome Field the wheats followed potatoes manured 

 with dung, and were drilled on Noveni>ber 2, 1911 ; on Road 

 Piece Field they came after mangolds, also manured with dung, 

 and were drilled on November 23, 1911. No further manuring 

 was done in either case. The wheat was cut August 9-10, 

 1912, and carted and threshed September 2. Of the different 

 varieties grown, the seed of the two French varieties, " Hatif 

 Inversable " and "Jolly Farmer," had been obtained direct 

 from M. Vilmorin, Paris ; the former, it appeared, is the same 

 wheat as that known as " Sensation," and the latter is the same 

 as the " Bon Fermier." Prof. Biffen supplied the " Little 

 Joss," and the " Sensation " wheat was some which had been 

 grown the year before by Mr. Luddington in the Cambridge- 

 shire fens, so that it was French wheat acclimatised by growth 

 in England. The harvest results are set out in Table VII. 



Table Nil.— Varieties of Wheat, 1912. 



Lansome Field and Boad Piece Field — Produce per acre. 



The yields in Road Piece were distinctly higher than those 

 in Lansome P^ield, the soil being richer. Taking the results of 

 the two fields together, it will be seen that " Square Head's 

 Master" and "Little Joss" came out well above the others, 

 " Little Joss " giving an average of 30 bushels of corn per 



