the variety or the season is responsible, it is certainly many years 

 since the Broadbalk wheat seemed so free from disease. The yields 

 were generally good without being exceptional, only Plot 16 reached 

 as much as 40 bushels to the acre. The unmanured plot yielded as 

 high as 1 22 bushels to the acre, but the crop on Plot 2 receiving 

 farmyard manure did not come to the front so much as might have 

 been expected in so dry a season. The weight per bushel was ex- 

 ceptionally high; the average of all the plots was 65*5 lbs., and Plot 

 16, with the highest yield, reached the exceptional figure of 66*8 lbs. 

 The highest weight of any individual bushel was 67*5 lbs. — also on 

 Plot 16 — while on the farmyard manure Plot grain was produced 

 weighing only a fraction less. These are the highest figures that 

 have ever been recorded. 



The Half Acre Plot, grown after a bare fallow^ in alternate 

 years, also yielded well, 17 bushels to the acre, which is higher than 

 it has been for many seasons past. This result is rather remarkable 

 considering the heavy rainfall of the last 3 months of the year 1910, 

 which might have been expected to w^ash out of the soil the nitrates 

 accumulated during the summer fallow\ In an ordinary way the 

 yield of wheat after fallow^ is largely determined by the rainfall of 

 the preceding autumn. 



If the season was exceptionally good for the wheat, it was 

 equally bad for the barley, which was sown on March 27th. The 

 highest yield was rather under 29 bushels to the acre, and the un- 

 manured Plot fell below 5 bushels to the acre. There was a con- 

 siderable attack of gout fly, but doubtless the great heat and drought 

 ripened off the barley too early and prevented the formation of the 

 grain from running its proper course, as may be seen from the 

 fact that the weight per bushel, although abo\'e the average, was 

 not good and the proportion of grain to straw was exceedingly low^ 

 It is rare to find the weight of barley-grain falling as low as half 

 the weight of the straw; indeed in a dry year one generally 

 expects the two to be equal on the good plots, but in 1911 the grain 

 was less than half the straw on as many as 12 plots out of the 29. 

 In consequence of the very scanty growth on many of the plots 

 there was an enormous development of weeds, which indeed have 

 been increasingly troublesome on the barley plots for some years 

 past. So serious has the situation become that it has been decided 

 to leave the plots without crop during 1912, and by continuous culti- 

 vation under bare fallow to try and restore the i)lots to a reasonable 

 degree of cleanliness. 



Like all other root crops the mangolds on the Barn Field suf- 

 fered from the season. They were first sown on May 9th and 10th, 



