for Twenty Years in succession on the same Land. 109 
Table VI.— Quantity and Quality of Bailey on Selected Tiots. Fifth Season, 185G. 
Plots. 
MANURKS. PER ACKE. 
I'RODUCK PKR ACRE, &c. 
Dressed Corn. 
Straw 
and 
Chaff. 
Tolal 
Corn 
Quantity. 
Weight 
per 
Bushel. 
1 Otfll 
Com. 
Produce 
(Corn and 
Straw). 
to 
100 
Straw. 
Bushels. 
13' 
19^ 
25 
lbs. 
47-1 
49-1 
47- 0 
48- 5 
lbs. 
16.56 
812 
1018 
1432 
Cttts. 
19i 
in 
lbs. 
3866 
1797 
2075 
3.347 
74-9 
82-4 
96-3 
74-8 
31f 
46-4 
1599 
21^ 
3981 
67-1 
37i 
4.') -4 
1886 
33 
5582 
51-0 
353 
46-3 
1841 
30J 
5257 
53-9 
I o 
4 O 
1 A 
4 A 
4 A A 
4C 
14 Tons Farm-yard Manure 
Unmanured 
Mixed Mineral Manure 
200 lbs. Ammonia-salts 
Mixed Mineral Manure, and"! 
200 lbs. Aranionia-salts .. / 
Mixed Mineral Manure, and) 
400 lbs. Ammonia-salts .. ) 
Mixed Mineral Manure, and\ 
2000 lbs. Rape-cake .. | 
of straw was proportionally as great as in otlier cases of low pro- 
duce. The quantity of corn was, indeed, under many of the 
conditions of manuring, the lowest, and under all nearly as low, 
as in any year of the 20 ; and, with a wet harvest time following- 
upon an almost continuously unfavourable growing period, the 
proportion of corn to straw was unusually low, especially under 
the high manuring. The weight per bushel of dressed corn was 
also very much below the average, and almost throughout lower 
than in any other of the 20 seasons. 
In former seasons it had been observed that, wherever phos- 
phatic manures were used, the crop ripened much earlier than 
where they were not employed ; but hitherto it had been thought 
desirable to cut all at the same time. From this time forward, 
however, there have generally been at least two cuttings, with 
an interval of from a week to a fortnight between them. In the 
case of the season under consideration, all the lots with phos- 
phatic manure were cut on August 13th, after which there was 
a week of almost incessant rain, which much damaged both grain 
and straw, the former being much sprouted. The remainder of 
the plots were cut on August 29th, and being then dead ripe, 
were carted on the same day. 
J udging from the reports, it would appear that the barley crop 
of the country generally was not so deficient in bulk as the 
results show that in the experimental field to have been ; but 
it was probably in many cases equally damaged, and bad in 
yield. 
Sixth Season, 1857. 
The last quarter of 1856 was marked by rapid variations of 
pressure, and extreme changes of temperature. In January 
