CROPS FKO.M FAR.\[-YARD MANURE VARY. 



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it, twice or tliree times as many elements of food as on 

 another field. 



This fact docs not refer to the Saxon fields alone, but 

 applies generally. Nowhere, in no country, do the crops 

 obtained by form-yard manuring on different fields ever 

 correspond, as the following table of the average produce 

 of divers crops in different provinces of the kingdom of 

 Bavaria will show. 



Average Crops in Bavaria, 



{Sei(fferfs Statistics.) 



One day's work jnelds average produce in bushels.* 



The crops produced by farm-yard manuring differ not 

 only in every country, but even in every locality ; and, 

 strictly speaking, every field dressed with farm-yard 

 manure yields an average produce of its own. 



The action of farm-yard manure upon the increase of 



1 Hectolitre 



Wlieat . 



Barley . 



Rye 



Oats . 



Spelt (in the husk) 



weifjhs on an averacje 



Zollverein weight 



. 146 lbs. 



. . 128 „ 



. . 140 „ 

 . . 88 „ 



. 79 „ 



1 Bavarian bushel. 



ZoUvcrein weight 



330—345 lbs. 

 290—300 „ 

 318—325 „ 

 200—300 „ 

 174—220 „ 



According to this .scale, the weight of a Prussian bushel of wheat is 

 83 lbs., and that of the English quarter 425 lbs., 100 lbs. (Zollv. weight 

 = 110-2 lbs. avoir.). 



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