QUALITY OF WHEAT CROPS 



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applied to the land before there is any crop immediately able 

 to utilise it. 



E. Character of the Crop as a/ected ~by Manuring and Season. 



Table XIX. gives certain particulars regarding the quality 

 of crops grown during the fourteen years 1889-1902, in 

 which Mr R. Hewlins of St Ives has made valuations of the 

 grain from each of the plots. These valuations and figures 

 respecting quality are to a certain extent disturbed by factors 



TABLE XIX.- 



Wheat, Broadbalk Field. 

 (1889-1902). 



Averages over 14 years 



: 9a and 6, 1894 and since. 



t Average for 7 years (1893, '94, '96, '97, '98, 1900, and 1902). 



arising only at second-hand out of the manuring. For 

 example, Plots 8 and 2 are very liable to be lodged and 

 to show a much higher proportion of sprouted corn in 

 a wet harvest like that of 1902. These effects may easily 

 overpower the differences directly due to the manuring and 

 visible in normal seasons. The farmyard manure plot, No. 2, 

 has given on the average the best grain, showing the highest 

 weight per bushel and the highest price in the valuation, 

 but there are several years in which the corn from this 

 plot occupied a very low place in the series. Plot 10, again, 



