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barley and oats; and again, on these fields the soil was 
mixed. The samples were taken from both fields, which 
we will call A and B. For the purpose of examining the 
corn, the oats were separated from the barley, and showed 
the following proportions :— 
A B 
Exp. Field. | Cont. Field || Exp. Field. Cont. Field. 
Per cent. Per cent, Per cent. Per cent. 
Barley ...... 64°5 57°3 34°1 33°0 
Oats: ccasauave 35°5 42°2 65°9 67:0 
From this we see that the barley on A represented about 
two-thirds and on B one-third, and the oats one-third and 
two-thirds respectively. After deciding the proportion 
between barley and oats, the corn was cleaned in the way 
previously mentioned. The harvest from the first fields 
was :— 
Ist Quality. and Quality. 
Crop. | Straw. Weight : 
= a ay Per | of aos Per Weight of 
cent. | grains | cent. | #000 grains 
in g. in g. 
Exp. Field A | 2,583 | 3,453 |{53°8 | 57°16 46-2 46°00 | Batley. 
Cont. ,, 1,812 | 2,042 |\48°8 | 56:92 | 51°2 | 43°02 
Exp. — — |f 88-2] 45°39 | 11°8 | 17°88 
Cont. 7 — — |\87°8) 46°85 | 12°2 | 17°84 Oats 
Increase ...... 42°6% | 694% | 5:0] 1°24) — — Barley. 
i tows 42°64} 694% | o4|-1'4 | — | — Oats. 
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The meslin has thus given an increase of 42°6 per cent. for 
barley and oats together; but whilst the barley shows a 
surplus of 5 per cent. on first quality, the surplus for oats 
is ‘only 04 per cent., which we may regard as equal zero; | 
and while barley, for a weight of 1,000 grains, gives a 
surplus of 1:24 g., this is reduced for oats to a negative 
of —1'4¢. 
