for Twenty Years in succession on the same Land. 135 
Witli a wet autumn, a winter alternately very mild and very 
severe, a spring with alternations of extreme heat with cold, frost, 
and wet, and a summer with a good deal of sunless weather, with 
occasional violent storms of wind and rain, much laying the crops, 
were not conditions from which a productive harvest might be 
expected. Yet, both before and alter the favourable change at 
harvest time, some writers in the ' Times ' gave very sanguine 
views of the crops of the country at large. The records in the 
agricultural papers were, however, miuch less favourable ; and 
the results obtained at Rothamsted led to the conclusion that the 
general wheat-crop would be not less than 20 per cent, below an 
average. Subsequent experience showed that this unfavourable 
estimate was only too well founded. Spring crops were almost 
everywhere sown late, especially on heavy lands. Barley was 
said to have suffered a good deal from the frosts of INIay, but at 
harvest the crop was reported to be but little under average in 
quantity, though variable in quality. Oats were considered to 
be over average. 
The experimental wheat crop was very deficient in straw, and, 
upon the whole, more deficient in quantity of corn than in any 
year since 1853 ; though the quality of the grain was even over 
average. The following results were obtained in the experimental 
barley-field : — 
Table XVII.— Quantity and Quality of Barley on Selected Plots. 
Sixteenth Season, 1867. 
7 
1 0 
40 
1 A 
4 A 
4 AA 
4 C 
MA-SURES, PER ACRE. 
14 Tons Farm-yard Manure 
Unmainired 
Mixed Mineral Manure 
200 lbs. Ammonia-salts 
Mixed Mineral Manure, and\ 
200 lbs. Ammonia-salts 
Mixed Mineral Manure, andl 
200 lbs. (') Ammonia-salts j 
Mixed Mineral Manure, and 
1000 lbs. Q) Rape-cake .. 
PRODUCE PER ACRE, &c. 
Dressed Corn. 
Quantity. ■Weight 
per Bush. 
Total 
Corn. 
Straw 
and 
Chaff. 
Total 
Produce 
(Corn and 
Straw). 
Corn 
to 
100 
Straw. 
Bushels. 
lbs. 
lbs. 
Cwts. 
lbs. 
45| 
.54-8 
2614 
271 
5652 
86-1 
I'J 
51-8 
978 
lOi 
2124 
85-3 
201 
53-6 
1180 
12 
2526 
87-7 
301 
51-3 
1686 
Ml 
3611 
87-6 
54-3 
2454 
25 J 
5304 
8G-1 
45 
54-6 
2.573 
285 
5753 
80*9 
425 
.54 -8 
2411 
24i 
5121 
89-0 
(') 400 lbs. the first 6 years (18.52-7). (-') 2000 lbs. the first 6 years (1852-7). 
Owing to the alternate wet and frost, and the consequent 
unworkable condition of the land, the experimental bar'ey was 
again sown late, not being put in until April 5. The earlier 
plots were cut on August 20 and 21, the later not until August 
27 and 28, and the whole were carted on August 31. The 
