20 Experiments with different Top- Dressings upon Wheat. 
and tlic thriving condition of the wheat. The nitrate of soda 
employed in this experiment was a good sample, as will be seen 
by the following analysis : — 
Composition of Nitrate of Soda. 
Moisture 2-09 
Chloride of sodium 1"07 
*Pure nitrate of soda 'J6-()5 
Kaiid -19 
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Plot IV. — Top-dressed with nitrate of soda and salt, pi'oduced : — 
cwt. qrs. Hk. 
Corn, Head G 0 113 
„ Tail 0 0 13 
Gil 
Straw 9 1 19 
Cavings 01 0 
Chafif 0 18 
Produce per acre : — 
Corn (head and tail) 47 bushels 31 lbs. 
Straw (including cavings and chaff) 1 ton 19 cwt. 3 qrs. 24 lbs. 
This wheat looked remarkably healthy and succulent, and, 
like the preceding three plots, of decidedly darker green than thai 
on other plots. 
Plot V. — Top-dressed with salt, produced : — 
cwt. qrs. Ili.-i. 
Corn, Head 4 2 7 
„ Tail 0 0 9 
4 2 IG 
Stravf 5 2 1 
Cavings 0 0 21 
Chaff 0 1 2 
Produce per acre : — 
Corn (head and tail) 35 bushels 15 lbs. 
Straw (including cavings and chafif) 1 ton 3 cwt. 3 qrs. IG lbs. 
In comparison with the four preceding plots the Avheat on 
Plot v., though healthy-looking, was backward and shorter in 
the straw at harvest-time. 
Plot \T. — Left unmanured, produced : — 
cw t. qrs. lbs. 
Corn, Head 4 1 10 
„ Tail 0 0 15 
4 1 25 
Straw GO 0 
Cavings 0 0 14 
Chatr" 0 0 19 
Produce ix;r acre : — 
Corn (head and tail) 33 bushels 57 lbs. 
Straw (including cavings and chaff) 1 ton 7 cwt. 20 lbs. 
