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RESULTS WITH BARLEY 



TABLE XX. 



-QUALITY OF BARLEY GRAIN GROWN AT ROTHAMSTED WITH 

 VARIOUS MANURES. AVERAGE OF TWENTY-FOUR YEARS, 



1872-95. 



These average results exhibit again the excellent position 

 taken by the barley produced on plot 4A. For weight per 

 bushel, and the size of the barley corns, it is only exceeded by 

 the barley grown with farmyard manure ; while in the propor- 

 tion of mealy grains one of the chief characteristics of a fine 

 malting sample it is far superior. The good quality of the 

 barley immediately suffers if either the superphosphate or the 

 alkalies is omitted from the manure. Messrs Munro and 

 Beaven, discussing the average results just given, say : " This 

 plot (4A) gives the best average malting quality of the whole 

 series." Second to the produce of this plot they place that of 

 plot 2 o, grown with superphosphate only. And third in order 

 of merit the produce of plot 4AA, grown with nitrate of soda, 

 superphosphate and alkalies. 



The excellent effect of potash manures upon the malting 

 quality of barley has been recently recognised in Norfolk 

 experiments. 



