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:for 5, -l/4/4/, against 1/18/9; for 6, 19/4, against 2/4, or, in the 

 last case, a loss of 17/, which shows that the soil was very poor as 

 regards nitrogen. An experiment to compare nitrate ofi soda 

 and Peruvian guano was favorable to the latter, as the quality of 

 "the barley was somewhat better, especially as regards starch. Ex- 

 periments giving farmyard dung to barley did not result favorably. 

 Barley being but a short time in growing, experiments made on 

 clay soil by Councillor Hoppenstedt, of Hanover, showed that 

 quick-acting fertilisers were the best to use. The effect of different 

 quantities of potash with 32 Ib. of nitrogen and 48 Ib. of phosphoric 

 acid per acre on an average of three plots in every case was as fol- 

 lows, viz. : Where beans, with superphosphate and kainit ; wheat, 

 with stable dung; turnips, with nitrogen and phosphoric acid had 

 been previously grown, the unmanured plots averaged 1,603 Ib. of 

 barley; without kainit, 2,240 Ib. ; with 320 Ib. of kainit, 2,201 Ib. ; 

 with 480 Ib. kainit, 2,307 Ib. ; with 640 Ib. kainit, 2,405 Ib. 

 Another quicker-acting potash salt would probably have given far 

 better results. 



Mr. F. Novara's experiment with lime on a humose, sandy soil 

 .after a crop of mangolds was 703 Ib. per acre without manure, and 

 1,187 Ib. with 3,700 Ib. of lime, or <l/5/ profit, without calculating 

 the straw. 



Barley is not to any extent cultivated in South Australia. In 

 1900 the crop was only 188,917 bushels from 15,767 acres, being 

 1,195 acres less than the year before. It is grown more for feeding 

 4han malting purposes. The brewers are not in favor of locally- 

 grown barley. My remarks on manuring should improve the 

 sample. 



Mr. S. Schmckel, of Naracoorte (22.34 in.), manured with bone- 

 dust, and had a heavy crop. Mr. W. Klenke, of Hartley (16 in.), 

 sowed three acres with 1 bushel each, and reaped 31| bags of barley, 

 giving 1 cwt. of colonial superphosphate to one-half and 2 cwt. of 

 English superphosphate to the other. The Colonial proved the 

 best. Mr. D. G. Stribling, of Stockport (T6.41 in.), manured 22 

 acres with 1 cwt. Thomas phosphate per acre, and the yield was 

 100 bags. Mr. Faulkner, of Stansbury (17 J in.), reaped 30 

 bushels of malting barley with 80 Ib. per acre of a phosphatic 

 manure, and Mr. Cudmore 42 bushels of malting barley. 



Mr. Jas. O'Shanaghan had dressed an acre with 2 cwt. bone- 

 dust, and had 50 bushels of Cape barley at Port Lincoln (20 in.). 

 At Riverton (20.36 in.) 60 acres were put in with the drill and 

 farmyard dung, and only 4 bags per acre was the result. At 

 Stratnalbyn (18.91 in.) 32 acres were sown, one half manured with 

 .phosphatic manure, and returned 32 bushels per acre, while the 

 unmanured part yielded nothing. Mr. A. Kinch tells me that 

 at Cygnet River, in Kangaroo Island (30 in. or more), he reaped 375 

 bags of barley from 23 acres. The land was new, from which 150 

 big trees had been grubbed, and no manure applied. At other 

 times he had never more than 30 to 40 bushels per acre. Mr. 



