for Twenty Years in succession on the same Land. 115 
Early in the season the reports of the crops were, upon the 
■whole, good ; but the heavy rains of June laid the best of them, 
and the high temperature of that month, but especially of July, 
induced premature ripening ; whilst, owing to the wet and stormy 
harvest jieriod, and a deficiency of labour, much of them were too 
long out, and, especially the heavy ones, much damaged. Wheat 
was eventually pronounced to be under average, much injured, 
and very poor in quality : barley, a very uneven crop, with very 
thin grain, and a good deal sprouted ; oats also very deficient. 
The experimental wheat was unusually bulky with high 
manuring. With only moderate amounts of ammonia the quan- 
tity even of grain was not deficient ; but, with heavy dressings 
of ammonia there was, compared with the average, a consider- 
able deficiency of corn, and a large amount, and very undue 
proportion, of straw. The weight per bushel of dressed corn was 
also throughout very low. The following are the results obtained 
with barley : — 
Table IX. — Quantity and Quality of Barley on Selected Plots. 
Eighth Season, 1859. 
Plots. 
MANURES, PER ACRE. 
PRODUCE PER ACRE, &c. 
Dressed Corn. 
Quantity.! Weight 
per Bush. 
Total 
Corn. 
Straw 
and 
Chaff. 
Total 
Produce 
(Corn and 
Straw). 
Corn 
to 
100 
Straw. 
7 
1 0 
40 
I A 
4 A 
4 A A 
4 C 
14 Tons Farm-yard Manure 
Mixed Mineral Manure 
200 lbs. Ammonia-salts 
Mixed Mineral Manure, and'l 
200 lbs. Ammonia-salts . . / 
Mixed Mineral Manure, andi 
200 lbs. (') Ammonia-saltsj 
Mixed Mineral Manure, and) 
1000 lbs. Eape-cake ..) 
Bushels. 
40 
13i 
\n 
\^ 
34| 
35| 
35 
lbs. 
52-5 
49'0 
52-5 
47-5 
.51-0 
50- 5 
51- 0 
lbs. 
2362 
775 
1197 
919 
2017 
2092 
2135 
Cwts. 
28^ 
121 
27i 
305 
29i 
Ibd. 
5558 
1800 
2567 
2204 
5067 
5517 
5440 
73-9 
75-6 
87-4 
71'5 
f)6-l 
61-1 
64-0 
(') 400 lbs. the first 6 years (1852-7). O 2000 lbs. the first 6 years (1852-7). 
The seed was sown on March 3 ; and with, upon the whole, 
mild weather, and a good deal of rain, for a couple of months, 
succeeded by heavy thunderstorms, but a considerable amount 
of hot weather, the crop came forward very early, the plots 
manured with superphosphate being cut on July 13, and carted 
on August 1 ; whilst the remainder were not cut until August 8, 
and were carted on August 12. With the wet spring, and pre- 
mature ripening summer, there was a considerable deficiency of 
total produce, which showed itself proportionally much less in 
the straw where the manure was liberal than where it was de- 
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