212  Report  on  the  Field  and  Feeding  Experiments  at  Woburn. 
Plot  11b  (double  the  quantity  of  dung).  Wheat  decidedly 
better  than  on  plot  10b. 
At  that  time  no  mildew  could  be  seen  on  any  of  the  plots  nor 
in  the  rotation  wheat. 
The  harvest  in  Stackyard-field  commenced  on  the  14th  of 
August. 
The  cuttings  of  the  continuous  wheat-plots  began  on  the  14th 
of  August  and  terminated  on  the  25th. 
The  wheat  was  carted  and  stacked  on  the  24th  of  August, 
1882.  It  was  threshed  in  the  field  by  means  of  a portable 
threshing-machine  on  the  26th  of  October. 
As  in  former  years,  the  straw  of  each  plot  was  weighed  at  the 
time  of  threshing,  in  the  field  ; and  the  corn  of  each  plot  was 
bagged,  carefully  labelled,  and  stored  in  the  granary  until  the 
2nd  of  November,  when  the  gross  weight  of  corn  from  each  plot 
was  taken,  and  the  whole  of  the  produce  was  measured  out,  and 
the  weight  of  each  bushel  was  ascertained.  In  each  case  the  gross 
weight  agreed  within  a lb.  or  1J  lb.  with  the  weights  obtained 
by  adding  together  the  weights  of  the  number  of  bushels  which 
each  plot  produced.  Although  this  is  a troublesome  and  rather 
expensive  work,  as  it  takes  up  much  time  and  requires  the  assist- 
ance of  ordinary  farm-labourers  and  trained  chemists,  accustomed 
to  weigh  rapidly  and  with  precision,  it  is  well  worth  the  trouble 
and  expense  to  secure  accuracy  by  this  double  check  of  weighing 
and  measuring  the  whole  produce  as  well  as  each  bushel  of 
corn. 
By  leaving  the  wheat  in  the  stack  for  some  months  before 
threshing  it,  and  again  by  storing  for  a week  or  longer  the 
threshed  corn,  greater  uniformity  in  the  condition  of  the  wheat 
of  variously  manured  plots  is  secured,  and  inaccuracies  in  the 
results  of  the  weighed  produce  are  avoided,  which  not  unfre- 
quently  are  made  when  corn-crops  are  threshed  out  and  weighed 
in  the  field  directly  the  corn  is  ready  to  be  stacked. 
Table  I.,  on  the  next  page,  shows  at  a glance  the  treatment 
of  each  plot  as  regards  manure,  and  the  results  of  the  harvest  in 
1882. 
On  all  the  different  plots  the  yield  of  wheat  was  considerably 
below  that  of  the  preceding  year,  and  the  quality  of  the  wheat 
was  somewhat  inferior  to  that  of  1881. 
It  is  worthy  of  observation  that  in  1882,  probably  owing  to 
the  extremely  wet  character  of  the  season,  the  relative  propor- 
tions of  straw  to  corn  were  much  greater  on  all  the  plots  than 
in  the  preceding  year.  Thus,  to  quote  only  a few  examples, 
the  unmanured  plot  1 in  1881  yielded  25-7  bushels  of  dressed 
corn,  and  19  cwts.  2 qrs.  and  27  lbs.  of  straw,  whilst  the  same  plot 
in  1882  produced  only  12 ’3  bushels  of  wheat,  or  scarcely  half  as 
