132 Report of Experiments on the Growth of Barley, 
checking o^rowth. The remainder of the spring was at first very 
variable, but May was unusually cold and dry. The early 
summer was changeable, but mostly warm, with a good deal of 
rain; and the'ripening and harvest periods were almost con- 
tinuously cold and rainy, with a moist atmosphere, but with 
occasional high and drying winds. 
After the winter the wheat-plant was very forward, but was 
much checked by the prevailing, though not continuous, cold- 
ness and dryness of the spring. Recovering, and showing fair 
promise in early summer, it was again checked by the sunless 
weather, and in many cases laid and damaged by the wet 
maturing and harvest period. The harvest was protracted and 
late ; and the crop was eventually pronounced to be below an 
average in quantity, though of fair quality. Barley and oats were 
said to be very variable ; in some cases poor, in others much 
damaged ; but upon the whole, above average in quantity, and in 
some districts harvested in good condition, and of good quality. 
The experimental wheat-crop was, under all conditions of 
manuring, below the average in quantity of corn ; and, excepting 
under the highest manuring (when it was considerably above), 
below the average in quantity of straw also. The weight per 
bushel was, however, over average. The following results were 
obtained in the experimental barley-field : — 
Table XVI. — Quantity and Quality of Barley on Selected Plots. 
Fifteenth Season, 1866. 
PRODUCE PER ACRE, &c. 
Plots. 
3IANURES, PKR ACRE. 
Dressed Com, 
Total 
Com. 
Straw 
and 
Chaff. 
Total 
Produce 
(Com and 
Straw). 
Cora 
to 
100 
Straw. 
Quantity. 
Weight 
per Bush. 
1 0 
4 0 
1 A 
4 A 
4 A A 
4 C 
1 4 Tons Farm-yard Manure 
Mixed Mineral Manure 
200 lbs. Ammonia-salts 
Mixed Mineral Manure, andl 
200 lbs. Ammonia-salts ../ 
Mixed Mineral Manure, andl 
200 lbs. (') Ammonia-salts 1 
Mixed Mineral Manure, audi 
1000 lbs. Rape-cake ../ 
Bushels. 
15? 
24 
"* s 
47 
50i 
481 
lbs. 
54-9 
51- 1 
52- 7 
50-9 
54- 7 
.'i5-4 
55- 6 
lbs. 
3065 
858 
1323 
1474 
2636 
2954 
2834 
Cwts. 
311 
9^ 
15i 
271 
281 
27i 
lbs. 
6594 
1928 
2759 
3200 
5704 
6117 
5929 
8r,-8 
80-1 
92- 1 
85-4 
85-9 
93- 4 
91-6 
(') 400 lbs. the first 6 years (1852-7). (=) 2000 lbs. the first 6 years (1852-7;. 
The seed was not sown until April 2nd. The whole of the 
plots were cut on August 15th, IGth, and 17th ; the earliest 
were carted on August 18th, l)ut the remainder not until August 
23rd and 24th. With, upon the whole, a dry and backward 
spring ; a changeable, but mostly warm and wet, early summer ; 
