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out of 35-years-old grass. Pressed after ploughing, seed sown 

 broadcast, twice harrowed and rolled. H cwt. sulphate of 

 ammonia per acre applied. Crop a success, attributed to the 

 firm seed bed, the use of sulphate of ammonia, and comparatively 

 early sowing. " The crop got a good start before very dry 

 weather set in." 



No. 92. A field of 15 acres of old pasture, very poor quality, 

 full of anthills, and covered with rough grass and thistles, was 

 ploughed up in early Spring by tractor to a depth of 8 inches, 

 pressed, seed sown broadcast, and harrowed 4 times. Part of 

 the field was sown with OATS, part with PEAS, in the end of 

 February and beginning of March. Both crops very good. 

 Success attributed to deep ploughing, to liberal manuring in the 

 past, and to hard frost. After the crops were up, they were 

 rolled with a heavy roller to check wire worm. 



No. 93. 12 acres black OATS sown in the middle of February 

 on deep loam, broken up in November by the Kent plough out 

 of 40-years-old grass ; harrowed four times and rolled once, and 

 manured with 4 cwt. fish guano per acre. Crop a success. It 

 started well, suffered little from wireworm, and promises a yield 

 of about 9 quarters per acre and a heavy crop of straw. 



No. 94. A field of 17 acres of inferior pasture on marshy soil, 

 below sea level, most of it consisting of a dark heavy loam, was 

 broken up by steam in the usual way in June and July, 1916, 

 out of 30-years-old grass. On 13 acres long pod BEANS were sown 

 in February, and produced a very satisfactory crop. Two acres 

 .were put under TURNIP SEED; about 15 per cent, of the plants 

 failed, and the crop produced about 22 bushels seed per acre. 

 The grower remarks " Beans, peas and turnip seed are the only 

 safe grub-resisting crops for the first two or three years." 



No. 95. 10 acres OATS and 6 acres of PEAS sown in April after 

 grass 20-40 years old on clay soil. The land was ploughed to a 

 depth of 6 inches, harrowed 6 times and cultivated once. The 

 oats failed; the peas were a "great success." The intention was 

 to have sown winter oats, but the wet autumn prevented this. 

 The spring oats were late sown, and to this the failure is attri- 

 buted. 



No. 96. 6 acres BEANS sown in February on a light loam 

 overlying Chalk, ploughed in January with the Kent plough out 

 of grass 34 years old. About half the field was pressed, and the 

 whole field rolled and harrowed. Crop a partial failure, attri- 

 buted to the fact that only part of the field was pressed after 

 ploughing; also to bad weather and wireworm. (It is unusual for 

 beans to suffer from wireworm.) 



No. 97. 10 acres OATS sown in March on deep heavy loam, 

 ploughed in February, by the Kent plough, out of 40-years-old 

 grass; twice rolled, drilled in March and the seed harrowed in. 

 Crop was a partial failure and will not exceed 4-5 quarters 

 The furrow was not pressed. A public footpath runs across the 

 field; after the land was ploughed, this was not marked out for 

 a few weeks, during which time the land was trampled for a 

 width of 4-5 yards on either side of the path. Here, and also 

 on the headlands, the crop is good. 



No. 98. 11 acres black OATS sown in the middle of February 

 on heavy soil, broken up in early November, by the Kent 



