Report cm the Field and Feeding Experiments at Woburn. 295 
The produce, as will be seen by a comparison with that on 
the continuous barley-plots, was a decidedly high one, the 
latter in only one case (plot 9 b) yielding a higher result than 
the cotton-cake plot (plot 1). The results are also especially 
interesting, as giving the first indication of the superior 
manurial qualities of decorticated cotton-cake over maize-meal. 
The similarity between the dung in either case and its artificial 
equivalent is very close, while it is noticeable that the four 
plots 5, 6, 7, 8, to which no more manure was supplied, are 
lower in produce than the other four, but yet sufficiently high to 
lead to the belief that the land, owing to previous high manuring, 
was still very fertile, in spite of the fact that a crop of mangolds 
grown without manure and weighing over 11 tons to the acre 
had been entirely carted off, and no manure at all applied to the 
subsequent barley crop. 
Rotation No. 3. — Four acres. 1886, tares (2 acres) ; peas 
(2 acres). This was the first year of the new course of rotation. 
Table V. — Produce of Tares and Peas in 1886 (Rotation Kg. 3). 
Takes. 
"lOTS. 
-Acre. 
No manure (after barley — cotton-j 
cake plot) / 
[No manure (after barley — maize- j 
[ meal plot) / 
jNo manure (after barley with 124 
lbs. nitrate of soda, artificial equi- 
I valent of cotton-cake dung) 
No manure (after barley with, no 
manure, artificial equivalent of 
I maize-meal dung) 
Produce per Acre. 
Number 
Weight 
Weight 
of 
per 
Straw. &c. 
Bushels. 
Bu=hel. 
cwt> qrs. 
lbs. 
lbs. 
cwt. 
qr?. lbs. 
25 1 
23 
45-5 
62-7 
30 
3 15 
27 2 
48-8 
63-5 
26 
2 16i 
28 0 
24^ 
49-2 
64-2 
27 
1 ^ 
26 1 
9 
46-2 
63-8 
24 
1 H 
Peas. 
(after barley — cotton- 
barley — maize- 
(No manure 
( cake plot) 
(No manure (after 
\ meal plot) 
INo manure (after barley with 124 lbs. 
nitrate of soda — artificial equiva- 
lent of cotton-cake dung) . . 
iNo manure (after barley with no 
manure — artificial equivalent of 
maize-meal dung) 
24 
0 
6 
42-3 
63-7 
21 
3 
21 
3 
20 
37-9 
64-8 
17 
1 
19i 
26 
0 
13 
45-3 
64-5 
21 
0 
27J 
25 
3 
27 
45-8 
63-6 
20 
2 
Oi 
