124 Drought of and 
'J'able XI. — Pioduce of Hay, Wheat, and Barley in 1870 compared with 
the average. 
Hay; 
15 Years. 
Total Produce, 
Corn and Straw. 
Wheat ; 
19 Years. 
Barley ; 
19 Years. 
. . Without Manure. 
Average produce per acre per annum . . 
lbs. 
2391 
lbs. 
2398 
lbs. 
2453 
644 
2002 
1489 
1747 
396 • 
964 
With Fannyard Manure. 
Average produce per acre per annum . . 
4604* 
6016 
5856 
1556 
5092 
4949 
3048 
924 
907 
With Mixed Mineral Manure and Ammonia-salts. 
Average produce per acre per annum .. 
5794 
6267 
5786 
3306 
5836 
4287 
2488 
431 
1499 
It is remarkable that, notwithstanding the great fluctuation in 
the amounts of produce of each of the three crops from year to 
year according to season, and also the difference in the degree in 
which each will vary from the average in one and the same 
season, still, when the average is taken over a considerable 
number of years, hay, wheat, and barley, are seen to yield loithout 
manure almost identically the same average weight of produce 
per acre per annum. On this point it should be mentioned that 
the second crop of grass is never removed from the land, being 
either consumed on it by sheep having no other food, or mown 
and left to rot as manure. The deficiency without manure, due 
to the drought of 1870, is seen to be 1747 lbs, of hay, 964 lbs. 
of barley (corn and straw), and only 396 lbs. of total produce of 
wheat. Thus, the deficiency was much the greatest in the hay ; 
there being a reduction in its case by nearly three-fourths, in that 
* For the hay crop, farmyard manure was only applied in the first 8 years ; but 
the average produce is taken over the 15 years. 
