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The crops were miserably small, and it is hard to under- 

 stand how they came to be so, seeing that not only were two 

 crops of tares and mustard respectively fed off on the land, but 

 that 1£ cwt. of cotton cake per acre were given as well to the 

 sheep. Yet a wheat crop of only 8 bushels per acre was the 

 result. For the first time, however, in the history of the experi- 

 ment, a slight superiority was shown with the tares as compared 

 with the mustard, similarly fed. 



Lower Half. — Here tares were drilled — 2 bushels per acre — 

 on November 3rd, 1922, and were fed off by sheep receiving also 

 3 cwt. cotton cake per acre (increased from the 1^ cwt. per 

 acre of former years). It was only possible to take one crop of 

 tares. Two crops of mustard, however, were grown, the seed 

 being sown on May 4th, 1923, and on August 4th, at the rate of 

 20 lb. per acre. Each crop was similarly fed off with cake, and, 

 after ploughing the land, wheat was sown. 



1924. 



On the upper half, green crops followed the wheat of 1923. 

 Previous to their sowing, an application of two tons of lime per 

 acre was given to one half of each acre plot — September 25th, 



1923. Tares — 2 bushels per acre were drilled on March 19th. 



1924, and gave an excellent crop. Mustard — 20 lbs. per acre — 

 was sown broadcast on May 30th, and also grew well. Sheep 

 were put on the mustard on July 22nd, and passed on to the tares 

 on August 12th, consuming on each plot 3 cwt. per acre of cake 

 (half linseed and half cotton cake). Only one green crop of each 

 kind was grown, and after the sheep had eaten these off, the 

 plots were ploughed up in October and wheat again sown. 



On the lower half, wheat (" Red Standard ") was drilled on 

 November 5th, 1923, at the rate of 3 bushels per acre. It showed 

 about the middle of December and grew well right on to May, 

 1924, the wheat after tares looking decidedly better than that 

 after mustard, and being as good as, or even better than, any 

 other wheat plot on the field. After this however came the usual 

 falling off, and by the middle of June the wheat looked poor and 

 short in straw on both plots. It was cut on August 14th, carted 

 September 2nd, and threshed just before Christmas. 



The yields were : — 



Thus the old order of things — broken in 1923 — was restored, the 

 mustard once more showing itself the better preparation, though 

 both crops were miserably and unaccountably poor, the wheat 

 crop on Series D (Rotation) in the same field being 19.5 bushels 

 per acre. 



