284 Report on the Field and Feeding Experiments at Wohurn, 
LIST OF CONTEIBUTOBS— con^mttec?. 
Jaques, T. E., Blacktoft, Howden, Yorks. . 
Little, H. J., of Coldham Hall, near Wisbech. 
LiTTi,E, W. C, Stags Holt, March, Cambs. 
Lowe, E., Sleaford, Lincolnshire. 
LuDDiNGTON, J. L., Littleport, near Ely. 
Meesom, W. M., Battles Bridge, Essex. 
MooRE, G., Redmoor, Elm, near Wisbech. 
Eeed, Col., Lancelot, Elm, near Wisbech. 
Seaks, R. H., Manea, Cambs. 
Smith, E., Southminster, Maldon, Essex. 
TiBBETTS, J., Asham House, Doddington. 
X. — Report on the Field and Feeding Experiments at Wohurn^ 
conducted on behalf of the Royal Agricultural Society of 
England during the year 1886. By Dr. J. Augustus Voelckek, 
B.A., B.Sc, Consulting Chemist to the Royal Agricultura} 
Society. 
Experiments on the Continuous Growth of Wheat. 
Immediately after harvest, 1885, the experimental plots were 
forked, and any twitch removed. They were ploughed in the 
beginning of October, and harrowed immediately afterwards. 
Next they were rolled, and marked out with the drill, and 
Browick wheat, at the rate of 9 pecks per acre, was dibbled in 
on October 14th-19th. The mineral-manures were sown and 
harrowed in on plots 4, 5, 6, 8 and 9, and by November 7th 
the plant began to show above ground and came up well on all 
the plots. On November 16th the feeding of four 3-year-old 
Hereford bullocks to make the farmyard manure for the plots 
10 B and 11 B commenced. They were weighed and put in 
the feeding boxes, where they were kept until December 7th, 
when they were again weighed. During the 21 days they 
consumed : — » 
2 cwt. 2 qrs. decorticated cotton-cake. 
4 cwt. maize-meal. 
31 cwt. 2 qrs. 16 lbs. swedes. 
6 cwt. wheat-straw chaff as food. 
They were further supplied during the time with 12 cwt. 
wheat-straw as litter. 
At first the bullocks had 3 lbs. decorticated cotton-cake, 5 lbs. 
maize-meal, 40 lbs. swedes, 7^ lbs. wheat-straw chaff per head 
daily, but later on the swedes were increased to 45 lbs. and the 
chaff to 9 lbs. The quantity taken at starting was rather more 
than in former years, the bullocks being older than those used 
