Report on the Field and Feeding Experiments at Woburn. 249 
manuring and results obtained are given in Table VI. The 
plots selected are those which were known from previous experi- 
ments in this field to be the most uniform obtainable. The 
meals were applied direct to the land, together with the pulped 
roots and straw-chaff, and the whole were ploughed in before 
sowing the barley. The dung was made by bullocks, which con- 
sumed in the boxes the stated quantities of food, the dung and 
meals being put on about the same time, viz., March 13-18th. 
The cake and meal used were the same as in the wheat and 
barley experiments. Barley, at the rate of 9 pecks per acre, 
was drilled on March 26th. Red clover has been sown among 
the barley. The yield of barley has been very small. The 
crop was cut and stacked August 26-28th, and threshed 
November 17-20th. The highest result has been obtained 
from the application of decorticated cotton-cake meal direct, 
and the next best from the cotton-cake dung. 
Experiments with soluble and finely ground Phos- 
PHATic Fertilisers in Warren Field (Strong Land). 
The new rotation began in 1884 with swedes, and barley 
followed in 1885. The plan of manuring, and the results of the 
barley-crop, are given on Table VII., pp. 250, 251. 
The barley — 9 pecks per acre — was drilled on March 23rd 
to 24th ; it was ready by August 28th, when it was cut and 
stacked. It was threshed on November 17th and 18th. Red 
clover has been sown among the barley. 
The want of uniformity in the soil of Warren Field, as has 
been noted in previous reports, renders these results of rather 
doubtful value. 
Eainfall at Woburn during 1885, taken at 8 a.m. daily at Crawley 
Mill Farm. 
lucUes. 
January 
February 
March .. 
April .. 
May .. 
June . . 
July . . 
August 
September 
October 
November 
December 
Inches 
1 
36 
I 
74 
1 
03 
•2 
44 
2 
93 
1 
78 
17 
2 
55 
4 
10 
3 
69 
3 
45 
73 
25 
97 
