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bakes in the sun. This is an important quality, in regard to 

 which stiff clays differ very much, and which we cannot as yet 

 infer even from a complete analysis. 



5. The annual fall of rain the months or seasons during 

 which it falls most abundantly and whether the year of the 

 experiments was unusually dry, or otherwise differed from the 

 average weather of the district. 



6. On what geological formation the land rests its physical 

 position or lie its distance from, height above, and general 

 exposure to the sea. 



7. The state of the land as to richness whether it is thorough 

 drained, or otherwise the nature of the subsoil when it differs 

 from the surface the composition of the springs or brooks that 

 water or flow from or through it. 



8. Its recent agricultural history the place in the rotation 

 occupied by the crop experimented on, as whether oats are 

 after lea trenched or untrenched, or after turnips, &c. the 

 quality of the farm-yard manure applied to it and generally any 

 special circumstances by which the culture, the crop, the field, 

 the farm, or the locality are characterised. 



9. Whether the party who describes the experiments himself 

 superintended them, or to what extent. 



A knoAvledge of these circumstances will enable us to judge 

 how far the results are to be considered special or general how 

 far the same results are to be expected elsewhere, and under 

 what conditions how far, therefore, similar experiments are 

 likely to be profitable in the average of circumstances, and ought 

 to be recommended to rent-paying farmers. 



