for Ticenly Years in succession on the same Land. Ill 
Table Vll. — Qiumlit y and Quality of Parley on Selected Plots. Sixth Season, 1857. 
PKODUCE PER ACIU;, Arc. 
I'lotfl. 
JIANUllES, PEP. ACKli. 
Dressed Corn. 
Straw 
and 
Chaff. 
Total 
Com 
Quantity. 
Weight 
pi-r 
Bushel. 
Total 
Corn. 
Produce 
(Cora and 
Straw). 
to 
100 
Straw. 
7 
1 0 
4 () 
1 A 
4 A 
4 AA 
4C 
1 4 Tons Farm-yard Manure 
Mixed Mineral Manure 
200 lbs. Ammonia-salts 
Mixed Mineral Manure, and! 
200 lbs. Ammonia-salts . . / 
Mixed Mineral Manure, andl 
400 lbs. Ammonia-salts ../ 
Mixed Mineral Manure, aud\ 
2000 lbs. l?ape-cake .. j 
Bushels. 
.51i 
205 
39f 
385 
573 
C4^ 
G2J 
lbs. 
.';4-2 
52- 0 
53- 7 
51-9 
54- 8 
53 '9 
54-1 
lbs. 
2915 
M53 
2191 
2133 
3210 
3C77 
3536 
Cwts. 
235 
12| 
172 
27| 
3fii 
331 
lbs. 
5564 
2878 
4111 
4118 
633G 
7734 
7241 
UO'O 
102- 0, 
114-1 
107-5 
103- 1 
90-6 
05-4 
establish growth; the summer was almost throughout hot and 
dry, excepting that there were some heavy falls of rain in June, 
and again in August ; and the result was a crop of more than 
average bulk, and of very unusual seeding tendency. In fact, 
there Avas a higher proportion of corn to straw, and higher weight 
per bushel of corn, than in any other year of equal gross produce 
per acre. The season was remarkably favourable for high 
manuring ; and even the heaviest crops, which were very heavy, 
especially in the ear, were very little laid. Thus, there were, 
with mineral manure and 400 lbs. of ammonia-salts per acre, 
90J parts of corn for 100 of straw, nearly 65 bushels of dressed 
corn per acre, and 53-9 lbs. weight per bushel. Again, with 
mineral manure and 2000 lbs. rape-cake, there were 95|^ corn to 
100 of straw, 62 J bushels of dressed corn per acre, and a weight 
per bushel of 54:'llbs. 
The contrast between this season and its produce, and those of 
1854, which was also a year of very unusual productiveness, is 
very great. Throughout the most active growing periods the 
temperature was very much lower in 1854 than in 1857. In 
May, 1854, there was about four times as much rain as in May, 
1857 ; but in June and July there was less than half as much, 
though nearly as many rainy days. The consequence was very 
much more gross produce per acre, in 1854; and, with the 
highest manuring, about one-fourth more straw, but scarcely as 
much corn, as in 1857, 
It would appear that the season of 1857 was much more 
strikingly favourable for the barley crop in the experimental 
field than, according to the published reports, it was estimated 
to be in the country generally. Thus, the crop was stated to be, 
