120 Report of Experiments on the Growth of Barley, 
tiful rains, and some hot weather, in June, brought the growing- 
crops rapidly forward ; J ul}^ August, and the greater part of 
September, were, upon the whole, seasonable as to temperature 
and degree of humidity of the atmosphere, with less than tlie 
usual amount of rain. 
The wheat crop was reported to be generally below the average 
in quantity per acre, owing chiefly to the loss of plant during 
the winter ; but it was much improved by the favourable weather 
of the latter part of the summer, and the autumn ; and a fair 
average, and, in many cases, good quality, compensated some- 
what for deficiency of quantity. Sjiring corn crops were, how- 
ever, stated to be generally good ; both barley and oats, especially 
the latter, yielding very well. 
The experimental wheat crop was considerably deficient in' 
straw, and somewhat so in grain ; but the quality of the latter 
was fully equal to the average. The crop was, however, in all 
respects superior to that of 1 860 ; and generally in yield, but 
especially in quality of grain, superior to that of 1859 also. 
The selected plots in the experimental barley-field gave the 
following results : — 
Table XI. — Quantitj' and Quality of Barley on Selected Plots. Tenth Season, 180L 
FRODUCE PER ACRE, &c. 
PlOlB. 
MANURES, PER ACRE. 
Pressed Com. 
Total 
Corn. 
Straw 
Total 
Produce 
(Corn and 
Straw).* 
Corn 
Qoantity. 
Weight 
per Bush 
and 
Chaff. 
to 
luo 
Straw. 
7 
1 0 
4 0 
1 A 
4 A 
4 A A 
4C 
14 Tons Farm-yard Manure 
Mixed Mineral Manure 
200 lbs. Ammonia-salts 
Mixed Mineral Manure, andl 
200 lbs. Ammonia-salts ..) 
Mixed Mineral Manure, and^ 
200 lbs. (') Ammonia-salts / 
Mixed Mineral Manure, andl 
1 000 lbs. f ) Eape-cake . . / 
Bushels. 
5q 
16i 
29| 
30j 
54i 
551 
53? 
lbs. 
54- 6 
52- 3 
54-0 
51-5 
54-0 
53- 5 
54- 3 
lbs. 
3169 
941 
1648 
1745 
3059 
3169 
3111 
Cwls. 
11 
I5i 
19| 
30i 
331 
31 
lbs. 
6715 
2166 
3366 
3945 
6472 
6937 
6576 
S9-4 
76-8 
95- 9' 
79-0 
89-6 
84-1 
89-8 
(') 400 lbs. the first 6 years (1852-7> 2000 lbs. the first 6 years (18.^2-7). 
Without manure, there was less than the average amount of 
both corn and straw ; but, with every description of manure, there 
was more than the average quantity of straw, and with every 
description (excepting by ammonia-salts alone) more than the 
average quantity of corn ; and with liberal manuring, whether 
in the form of farmyard dung, rape-cake, or mixed mineral 
manure and ammonia-salts, considerably more. The weight per 
