for Twenty Years in succession on the same Land. 
105 
of the air was, in June above, in July about, and in August and 
September below, the average. 
The autumn seed-time had been very favourable ; it was 
followed by an unusually severe winter, but the spring seed-time 
was not unfavourable. This was succeeded by generally fine but 
generally cold and backward weather, until the middle of July, 
from which time, however, until harvest, the period, though 
changeable, embraced some fine maturing and harvest weather. 
The season of 1854 appears, therefore, by the climatic records, 
to have been by no means continuously favourable, and the 
harvest was late ; yet the wheat-crop of the country was reported 
to be one of the largest yield per acre for many years past. The 
barley and oat crops were also spoken of as generally very good. 
The experimental wheat-crop was as remarkable for superiority 
in almost every particular, both of quantity and "quality, as that 
of 1853 had been in the opposite direction. The following 
results were obtained in the experimental barley field : — 
Table IV. — Quantity and Quality of Barley on Selected Plots. Third Season, 1854. 
Hots. 
MANURES, PER ACRE. 
PRODUCE PER ACRE, &c. 
Dressed Corn. 
Total 
Com. 
Straw 
and 
Chaff. 
Total 
Produce 
(Com and 
Straw). 
Com 
to 
100 
Straw. 
Quantity. 
Weight 
per 
Bushel. 
7 
1 0 
4 0 
1 A 
A A 
4 A A 
4C 
14 Tons Farm-yard Manure 
Mixed Mineral Manure 
200 lbs. Ammonia-salts 
Mixed Mineral Manure, and) 
200 lbs. Ammonia-salts . . / 
Mixed Mineral Manure, and 1 
400 lbs. Ammonia-salts .. ) 
Mixed Mineral Manure, and 1 
2000 lbs. Rape-cake . . f 
Bushels. 
561 
35 
42 
471 
60| 
62| 
60i 
lbs. 
53- 9 
.53-6 
54- 0 
53- 6 
54- 3 
52-1 
52-8 
lbs. 
3127 
1963 
2374 
2763 
3428 
3539 
3413 
Cwts. 
371 
2l| 
23J 
30^ 
40i 
49 
42J 
lbs. 
7298 
4405 
4969 
6155 
7958 
9026 
8125 
75-0 
80- 4 
91-5 
81- 5 
75-7 
64-5 
72-4 
The seed was sown as early as February 24th ; and the season, 
though backward, was without material checks. The result, 
with the early start, and these conditions, was a great bulk of 
produce, which, for its amount, was comparatively little laid ; 
and, with favourable harvest weather, it finally yielded a large 
amount of corn as well as straw, and generally a good weight per 
bushel. Under every condition of manuring the produce was 
considerably higher than in either of the two preceding seasons, 
and considerably higher also than the average of the 20 seasons. 
It was, in fact, under most of the conditions of manuring, in 
straw higher, and in corn also higher than, or nearly as high as, 
