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ENVIRONMENT AND MILLING QUALITIES. 



The figures show that late ploughing caused a fall in the crop 

 of six bushels of wheat to the acre, and that the dressing of nitrate 

 of soda partially made up for the deficiency on the late ploughed 

 plot but added nothing to the yield of the early ploughed plot. 



.The consistency, absolute weight and nitrogen content of the 

 samples in this experiment are given in the following table. Those 

 manured with nitrate of soda were darker in tint than the others, 

 while those from the late ploughed plot were comparatively pale 

 in colour and not so well grown as the rest. 



The standard maund consists of 40 seers and is equivalent to 82'271bs. 



In the following year, 1911-12, the experiment was repeated on 

 the same plot, but in this case no nitrate of soda was applied. 

 There was a distinct difference in vegetative vigour between the 

 plots and this is reflected in the yield of grain as will be seen in the 

 results obtained. 



1. Early ploughing — 35-41 bushels to the acre. 



2. Late ploughing— 22-9<» bushels to the acre. 



The difference in yield during the past year was twelve and-a- 

 half bushels per acre, or about twice that obtained the first year of 

 the experiment. The results indicate that the effect of hot weather 

 cultivation is cumulative and that the effects are not lost for some 



