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and cultivated gentlemen, and I see no reason to doubt that 
teachers as capable may be found for our elementary schools as 
those who have for many years been obtained for Reformatories 
and Industrial Schools. It would be invidious to make any 
selection of the replies of these gentlemen for special comment, 
and therefore I will only add the expression of my grateful 
thanks to them, and to the members of the governing bodies 
whom I met during my visits, for the trouble they have all taken 
in giving me the information that I asked for, and also for their 
kindness and hospitality when I visited them. 
This Report cannot be fitly concluded without a word of 
acknowledgment to Colonel Inglis, H.M. Inspector of Reforma- 
tories and Industrial Schools, and to Mr. Rogers, the Deputy- 
Inspector. I can imagine it possible that an independent 
investigation into the condition and mode of working of esta- 
blishments which are under Government supervision might be 
looked upon with coldness, if not met with opposition, by the 
official and responsible Inspectors. But both Colonel Inglis 
and Mr. Rogers took a very different view of my enquiry, and 
volunteered to give me every information and assistance in 
their power. I have largely availed myself of their kindness, 
and I wish to record my great appreciation of their valuable aid. 
VI. — Report on the Fiehl and Feeding Experiments at Woburn, 
conducted on behalf of the Royal Agricultural Society of 
England during the year 1885. By Dr. J. A. VoELCKER, B.Sc, 
Consulting Chemist of the Society. 
Experiments on the Continuous Growth of Wheat. 
These experiments were carried on in the same manner as in 
former years. On August 25th, 1884, the experimental plots 
were broken up with the grubber to prevent weeds seeding. 
On October 16th mineral manures were sown on Plots 4, 5, 6, 
8 and 9, being harrowed in, and the ground then rolled. On the 
21st, 22nd, and 23rd, Browick wheat was dibbled in at the rate 
of 9 pecks per acre, and the land harrowed. It began to appear 
on November 8th. On November 20th four bullocks were put 
in the pits to make manure for the half-plots, 10 B and 11 B. 
They fed until December 12th, a period of 22 days, having in 
that time consumed 
2 cwts. 2 qrs. decorticated cotton-cake, 
4 cwts. maize-meal, 
30 cwts. white turnips, 
5 cwts. wheat-straw chaff as food. 
