aftermath was good — so good indeed that the country took on an 

 unusually green colour all through the late summer. 



The effect of this abnormal season on the growth of the crops was 

 very interesting. The following. did well : — 



The winter oats that had started well before the bad weather set in ; 



The winter wheat that had received sulphate of ammonia in autumn, 

 and had therefore started growth early ; 



The winter wheat that had been ploughed in and not drilled in the 

 ordinary way. This^ however, did not finish much better than 

 the drilled wheat. 



The late sown wheat — Red Marvel sown in March. 



The clover in Little Hoos Field, especially on the dunged plots. 



The potatoes and mangolds went in well and did extraordinarily well. 

 On the other hand : — 



The winter wheat, especially Rivetts, did exceedingly badly ; it went 

 in badly and never gave a plant. The Red Standard was better. 



Barley was patchy, and Hay gave a poor crop. 



The conditions were very favourable to thistles, which gave a good 

 deal of trouble, especially on grassland. " Langley Beef " (Sonchus 

 arvensis) was also troublesome in the newly broken grass in New 

 Zealand. 



The legal " summer time " came into force on the morning of 

 April 8th and lasted till the evening of September 17th, during this 

 period the clock was put one hour in advance of the true time. As 

 in 1916, however, the meteorological observers and the farm workers 

 kept to the sun time and not the legal time. 



THE SEEDS COURSE. — As the clover leys during the past few 

 years have tended to be patchy, it has been decided to give up pure 

 clover and to grow the following mixture instead : — 



20 lbs. 



Alsyke Clover shows less tendency to fail than the Red Clover, but 

 if both fail, there will still be a growth of grass that can be made to 

 yield well by treatment with nitrogenous fertilisers. 



THE GREEN MANURING EXPERIMENT.— Owing to the 

 shortage of labour this experiment has been discontinued during the 

 War ; it is hoped, however, that we may be able to resume it afterwards. 



THE EXPERIMENT ON THE RESIDUAL MANURIAL 

 VALUES IN LITTLE HOOS FIELD.— After this had gone on for 

 twelve years, an account of it was written by Sir A. D. Hall (Journ. 

 Roy. Ag. Soc, 1913, 665-672). During the whole of this first series 

 there has been no clover or seeds mixture grown ; a second series has 

 now been started differing from the first in that clover or a clover 

 mixture is to be grown e\ery fourth or fifth year. The first clover 

 crop was taken in 1916-17 and was very good (p. 63). 



