292 Report on the Field and Feeding Experiments at Woburn. 
the same crops are grown in rotation without manure, and 
carried off the land entirely. In this wav it is believed the 
true differences of manurial value may be brought out, and the 
question of over-fertility settled. 
Rotation No. 1. — Four acres. 1885, tares (2 acres) ; peas 
(2 acres). 1886, wheat (four acres). Both the tares and the peas 
having failed in 1885 through blight, the former could not be 
fed-off as had been intended, consequently wheat (unmanured) 
was grown over the whole rotation, Browick wheat, 8 pecks 
per acre, being drilled on November 7th, 1885. There was a good 
tilth and the seed went in well. The wheat came through by 
November 27th. The unfavourable winter and the spring 
frosts did a great amount of damage ; much more indeed than 
in the case of the permanent wheat-plots, which latter were in a 
rather less exposed part of the field. In many parts there was 
a total absence of plant. The wheat was cut on August 30th, 
1886, and carted on September 1st, being threshed and weighed 
on October 20th-22nd. Too much reliance must not, for the 
reasons stated, be placed on the value of the recorded results ; 
they are found in Table III. The produce was extremely low, 
as will be noticed. 
Table III. — Produce of Wheat (Rotation No. 1), in 1886, after 
(a) Tares, {h) Peas. 
Plots ol 
i-Acre. 
Manures. 
Dressed Cokn.* 
Produce per Acre. 
Straw, Chaff, &c. 
Bushels. 
Weight 
per 
Bushel. 
per Acre. 
1 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
7 
8 
JNo manure (after tares — cotton-"! 
JNo manure (after tares — maize-meall 
» plot) / 
fNo manures (after tares — artificial! 
\ equivalent of cotton-cake dung) . . J 
(No manure (after tares — artificial! 
\ equivalent of maize-meal dung) . . / 
jNo manure (after peas — cotton-cake\ 
I plot / 
J No manure (after peas — maize-meal\ 
1 plot) / 
fNo manure (after peas — artificial! 
\ equivalent of cotton-cake dung) . . / 
|No manure (after peas— artificial 1 
( equivalent of maize-meal dung) .. / 
cwt. qrs. lbs. 
10 3 22 
8 0 2 
10 3 15| 
7 3 17 
13 0 24 
12 1 15 
13 1 12 
13 1 lOJ 
20-5 
15-5 
20- 3 
15-1 
25-15 
23- 4 
24- 8 
21- 8 
lbs. 
59- 85 
57- 80 
60- 00 
58- 80 
58- 85 
59- 20 
60- 25 
GO- 13 
cwt. qrs. lbs. 
14 0 
.11 1 IJ 
13 0 13 
10 3 8i 
16 1 5J 
14 3 15 
15 2 17 
16 3 1.-) 
* The produce being so small, all is given as dressed coru. The tail wheat 
was considerably less than 1 bushel. 
