130 Report of Experiments on the Growth of'Barle]/, 
Table XV. — Quantity and Quality of Barley on Selected Plots. 
Fourteenth Season, 1865. 
PRODUCE PER ACRE, &c. 
Plots. 
MANURES, PER ACRE. 
Dressed Corn. 
Total 
Com. 
Straw 
Total 
Produce 
(Corn and 
Straw). 
Com 
Quantity. 
Weight 
per Bush. 
and 
Chaff. 
to 
100 
Straw. 
7 
1 O 
14 Tons Farm-yard Manure 
Bushels. 
52f 
18 
lbs. 
54-4 
.53-9 
lbs. 
2923 
1018 
Cwts. 
25i 
8^ 
lbs. 
5769 
1924 
102-7 
112-3 
4 O 
Mixed Mineral Manure 
24^ 
54-0 
1349 
10 
2464 
121-0 
1 A 
200 lbs. Ammonia-salts 
29^ 
53-8 
1666 
13 
3127 
114-0 
4 A 
Mixed Mineral Manure, and"! 
200 lbs. Ammonia-salts ../ 
461 
53-5 
2549 
22^ 
5075 
100-9 
4 A A 
4 C 
Mixed Mineral Manure, and^ 
200 lbs. (') Ammonia-salts / 
Mixed Mineral Manure, aud'l 
1000 lbs. (.-) Rape-cake .. J 
481 
48| 
53-3 
53-5 
2684 
2648 
24i 
22 
5469 
5117 
96-4 
107-2 
(') 400 lbs. the first 6 years (1852-7). (-) 2000 lbs. the first 6 years (1852-7). 
.barley was cut on August 9th ; but, owing to the wet weather 
which had then set in, it was not carted until August 18th. As 
might be expected from the characters of the season, and as was 
consistent with the results obtained in the experimental wheat 
field, there was throughout a considerable deficiency of total 
produce (corn and straw together), which was proportionally the 
greater the poorer the conditions as to manuring. There was, 
however, a very high proportion of corn to straw, the higher the 
poorer the manuring ; and the weight per bushel of dressed corn 
was about the average. As to the actual amount of corn per 
acre, it was, without manure, with mineral manure alone, and 
with ammonia-salts alone, considerably below the average, but 
much nearer the average with the more complete manuring. 
The result is, then, that with a deficiency in total amount of 
rain, the very unequal distribution of that which fell, the very 
dry atmosphere, and the unusually high temperatures almost 
throughout the periods of growth, the conditions above ground 
were adverse to luxuriance, but very favourable to seeding 
tendency and maturation ; and, where the conditions supplied 
within the soil were the most defective, the root-range would 
doubtless be the most restricted, and the plants would suffer 
the most ; whereas, where the conditions supplied within the 
soil were liberal, a more extended root-range would render 
the plant less sensitive to the atmospheric heat and drought; 
and, hence, proportionally less failing in luxuriance. 
The characters of both the experimental wheat and experi- 
mental barley-crops were, therefore, in the main accordant with 
those of the respective crops in the country at large. That is, 
