122 Report of Experiments on the Groivth of Barley, 
with a good deal of rain at the beginning and end of the month, 
but with fine and warm weather intermediately. 
The winter of 1861—2 was, therefore, upon the whole, mild. 
The spring was variable as to temperature, upon the whole 
warmer than usual, and very wet. The summer was unsettled, 
stormy, cold, and wet. 
The wheat crop of the country was almost universally reported 
to be under the average, in many cases root-fallen, and also much 
mildewed. Barley was stated to be about, or scarcely, an average ; 
oats a fair average. 
The experimental wheat crops were, where the manuring was 
not excessive, fully equal to tlie average in both quantity and 
quality of grain, but, upon the whole, barely average in amount 
of straw. 
The following results were obtained in the experimental barley- 
field :— 
Table XII. — Quantity and Quality of Barley on Selected Plots. 
Eleventh Season, 1802. 
Plots. 
MANURES, PEU ACPvE. 
PRODUCE PER ACRE, &c. 
Dressed Corn. 
Total 
Cuni. 
Straw 
and 
Cliaff. 
Total 
Produce 
(Corn and 
Straw). 
Com 
to 
100 
Straw. 
Quantity. 
Weight 
per Bu^h. 
7 
1 0 
4 0 
1 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, and"! 
200 lbs. (') Amnionia-salts / 
Mixed Mineral Manure, and"! 
1000 lbs. Rape-cake ../ 
Bushels. 
IGi 
2oJ 
31i 
47i ' 
483 
\ 451 
lbs. 
54-8 
50-3 
52-0 
49-4 
54-0 
54-0 
54-0 
lbs. 
2936 
899 
1428 
1821 
2725 
2824 
2G34 
Cwts. 
341 
9f 
13* 
20i 
31| 
331 
28^ 
lbs. 
6774 
1987 
2941 
4106 
6273 
6529 
.=5872 
76-5 
82-6 
94-4 
79-7 
76-8 
76-2 
81-4 
(') 400 lbs. the first 6 years (1852-7). (-) 2000 lbs. the first 6 years (1852-7). 
As has been stated, March was unusually wet; the seed was 
not sown until April 16th; the earlier plots (those with super- 
phosphate) were not cut until August 22nd, and the remainder 
not until September 1st. Excepting without manure, and with 
mineral manure alone, the (juantity of barley-grain per acre was 
either close upon, or over, the average of the 20 years ; and the 
weight per bushel of dressed corn was also, in most cases, fully 
or over the average. The superiority was the most marked with 
farmyard-manure ; and with it there was the greatest excess of 
straw as well as corn. With rape-cake, on the other hand, there 
was a slight deficiency of both straw and corn, the crops being 
