Report  on  the  Field  and  Feeding  Experiments  at  Woburn.  233 
The  maize-dung  on  plot  2 produced  5 cwts.  and  7 lbs.  less 
roots  than  the  cottoncake-dung. 
Experiments  on  Barley  in  Lansome  Field. 
In  1881  experiments  were  instituted  on  4 acres  of  this  field 
on  Swedish  turnips  grown  with  soluble  and  finely  ground  phos- 
phatic  fertilisers.  The  following  table  shows  the  plan  of 
manuring  that  was  adopted  on  Lansome-field  : — 
Woburn  Root  Experiments  iu  1881  iu  Lansome  Field,  Crop  Swedish 
Turnips  (Gibbs’  Selected  Purple-top),  each  Plot  J of  an  Acre, 
separated  from  the  rest  by  paths  24  feet  in  width. 
The  swedes  were  fed-off  on  the  land  by  sheep,  with  the  addition 
of  an  equal  quantity  of  cake  and  corn  on  each  of  the  ^-acre 
plots,  at  the  rate  of  4 cwts.  of  barley-meal  and  2 cwts  of  decor- 
ticated cotton-cake  per  acre. 
After  ploughing-up  the  land,  weeding,  and  harrowing,  it  was 
in  good  condition  for  barley,  which  was  sown  on  the  5th  of 
May,  1882.  The  barley  came  up  on  the  11th  of  May,  and  sub- 
sequently there  was  a strong  and  even  plant  on  all  the  plots  of 
