54 ELECTRICITY IN AGRICULTURE 
On the experimental field B the harvest was as 
follows :— 
Ist Quality Corn.| 2nd Quality Corn. 
Crop. | Straw. Weight : 
an ce het Per |of oes Per Weight of 
j cent. | grains | cent. | 12000 stains. 
in g. In g- 
Exp. Field B| 2,313 | 3,937 |{51°7 | 56°47 | 48°3 oe 
’ . rley. 
Cont. ,, 2,500 | 3,542 |\43°4 | 54°92 | 56°6 [43°77 ane 
Exp. a —_ — 80°4 | 46°46 | 19°6 77 }Oats 
Cont. ,, — — |\80°6 | 46°38 | 19°4 )25°12 ; 
Increase ...... —7'5%| rr2%| 83) 155 | — — Barley. 
ee _ — |—o'2 | o'08 | — — Oats, 
The barley on the experimental field B thus gave a 
surplus of 83 per cent. first quality and of 1°55 g. in the 
weight of 1,000 grains, whereas the corresponding quantities 
for oats were —o'2 and 0°08, or almost equal to zero. 
Oats, which, when cultivated alone, show so important 
an improvement as 86 per cent. increase in first 
quality and 0°75 g. in the weight of 1,000 grains, show, 
when cultivated along with barley, under electrical treat- 
ment, no such improvement, which is a most remarkable 
result. Probably the cause is that the barley was grown 
taller than the oats, and thus received more of the electric 
current. The whole quantity of oats is, nevertheless, 
increased in the same proportion as the barley. 
These two second experimental and control fields give 
a negative result of —7°5 per cent. in crop, but 11°2 per cent. 
surplus in straw. The cause of this lies in the exceptionally 
large harvest which the second control field has given, this 
surpassing the harvest from the first control field by 688 kg., 
or about 38 per cent., and the yearly average harvest of 
meslin, which during the last three years had been 2,047 kg. 
per hectare, by 453 kg., or 221 per cent. This unusual 
fertility seems to depend on chance, and therefore the 
results of the second experimental and control fields are 
wholly excluded from the account, especially as the barley 
