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or, in other words, the produce of Plot 7 was nearly one-third 
greater than that of Plot 8. 
In 1860, — a year, be it remembered, which was cold and wet, 
almost beyond precedent, — the eight j)lots referred to in the 
preceding experiments were all sown with giant wheat on the 
15th of November; it was ripe, and cut August the 28th; was 
carted on the 6th of September ; and on the 17 th the corn and 
straw were carefully measured and weighed. 
The results are given in the following table : — 
I'lots. 
Quantity of Manure per Acre 
applied in 1859. 
Sheep-manure, 2-i tons = 48 tons 
of common farmyard-manure 
Sewage, 48 tons 
Kape-cake, 1 ton 1 1 cwts 
Nothing 
Sheep-mauure, 24 tons = 48 tons 
Hay, 8 tons-, straw, 2 tons Ki cwts. 
Sheep-manure ( = 48 tons) con- 
verted into liquid-manure 
Sheep-manure ( = 48 tons) . . 
Crop of Oats, 
1^59. 
1 2 
1 2 
0 16 
0 9 
0 18 
0 18 
44 
22 
0 
0 
74 
58 
Crop of Maize, 
Stalks and Com. 
8 11 11 
6 8 100 
Crop of Giant Wlieat, 18G0, 
per Acre. 
Product! 
in 
Grain. 
Produce 
in 
Straw. 
Ibd. 
1505 
1701 
964 
808 
1680 
13.50 
1510 
1688 
Tons. cwts. lbs. 
12 62 
10 44 
17 15 
8 9 
11 44 
1 71 
9 61 
11 35 
Proportion 
between ■ 
tlie Grain 
and Straw. 
0-256 
0-302 
0-256 
0-257 
0-291 
0-29a 
0-272 
U-294 
It is remarkable that the sewage when applied in these large 
quantities acted more favourably on the second than on the first 
crop, and, as compared with farmyard manure, increased the 
grain more than the straw, producing 5 per cent, less straw and 
13 per cent, more grain than the latter. 
In plot 6 the chopped hay and straw used as manure is com- 
paratively still less successful than in the preceding year. This 
result is contrary to the received opinion, which assigns to vege- 
table manures a less energetic but more abiding action than that 
of animal manure. 
In plot 7 the yard-manure applied in a liquid shape is much 
behind its competitor in plot 8, producing 25 bushels of corn as 
against 28 bushels, and 2 tons 9-J- cwts. of straw as against 2 tons 
11 J cwts., but in the preceding year it had an excess of one- 
third. 
But the enlightened advocates of liquid manure have always 
admitted its want of endurance, which, however, is no real 
defect. A prompt return and rapid circulation of capital is the 
chief object to be attained ; if from one process and one crop a 
full and immediate return can be reaped for every outlay, then 
