332 Report on the Field and Feeding Experiments at JVoburn. 
all went on favourably ; but bad symptoms appeared ; he became 
rapidly worse ; and, at 5 A.M. on the morning of the 7th of Sep- 
tember, passed away from us one of the kindest, best, and truest- 
hearted men that it has been my lot to know ; a man who ful- 
filled every relation of life as a Christian should do ; a good 
husband, father, and friend ; simple, honest, straightforward, 
and single-minded ; always striving to do his duty in the station 
of life in which he was placed. Long will his memory be 
cherished by those who knew and loved him. Long will that 
handsome face and quick cheery voice be missed from the 
council-rooms of those societies to which he belonged. Long 
will he be mourned by those friends and neighbours in whose 
welfare he took such an active interest. Amongst the many 
good and great men that Yorkshire has produced, none has gone 
to his grave more truly lamented than he, so recently cut off in 
the prime of life and the fulness of his strength, our dear friend 
" Tom Booth." 
XII L — Report on the Field and Feeding Experiments conducted at 
Woburn, on behalf of the Royal Agr icultural Society of England, 
during the Year 1878. By Dr. Augustus Voelcker, F.R.S., 
Consulting Chemist to the Society. 
The Experiments on the Continuous Growth of 
Wheat. 
The mineral manures were sown broadcast on the 2nd of 
November, 1877, before the seed was sown, and the dung also 
was applied in autumn. The seed — Browick wheat — was drilled 
in on the 5th of November, 1877, and the salts of ammonia and 
nitrate of soda were top-dressed on the 4th of March, 1878. 
The harvest was begun on the more mature plots on the 2nd of 
August, and the whole of the produce of the several plots was 
carted and stacked on the 19th of August, and threshed out on 
the 16th of October, 1878, yielding results which are embodied 
in the Table on the opposite page. 
The wheat on all the plots was more or less blighted, and on 
several plots attacked in places by the red maggot. The hot 
weather which set in at the beginning of July brought on the 
wheat very fast. During a period of four weeks and three days 
in June and July no rain had fallen ; and when it rained at last, 
towards the middle of July, the wheat had ceased growing, and 
did not come out well in the ear on some of the plots, especially 
on plot 4, dressed with minerals alone, and plot 3, top-dressed 
in spring with nitrate of soda alone. 
