246  Annual  Report  of  the  Consulting  Chemist  for  1882. 
the  cost  of  making  clung  in  places  where  straw  cannot  he  pro- 
duced in  sufficient  quantities,  or  where  the  straw  can  be  sold  at 
a good  price. 
A sample  of  stable-dung,  in  the  production  of  which  German 
peat-fibre  had  been  used,  had  the  following  composition  : — 
Moisture 70 ‘90 
“"Organic  matter  25 ’50 
Phosphate  of  lime *76 
Alkaline  salts,  &c 1 • 15 
Insoluble  siliceous  matter  1 • 69 
100-00 
* Containing  nitrogen • 5G 
Equal  to  ammonia  ✓ • 68 
This  dung  was  equal  in  value  to  good  rotten  farmyard- 
manure. 
The  ‘Journal  ’ of  the  Society  for  1882  contains  the  following 
contributions  of  mine  : — 
1.  Annual  Report  for  1881. 
2.  Quarterly  Reports  to  Chemical  Committee. 
3.  Report  on  the  Field  and  Feeding  Experiments  conducted 
at  Woburn  during  the  year  1881. 
4.  Field  Experiments  on  Swedish  Turnips  with  soluble  and 
finely  ground  Phosphatic  Fertilizers. 
5.  Experiments  in  Warren  Field,  Crawley-Mill  Farm,  Wo- 
burn, on  the  Manurial  value  of  various  Phosphatic  Fertilizers. 
The  wheat-crops  in  the  Rotation  Experiments  at  Woburn 
yielded  from  5 to  5^  quarters  of  good  wheat,  weighing  about 
61  lbs.  per  bushel,  and  2\  to  2f  tons  of  straw. 
The  yield  of  corn  in  1882  was  less  by  about  14  bushels  per 
acre  than  in  the  preceding  year,  and  on  the  other  hand,  the 
Rotation  wheat  produced  from  8 to  11  cwts.  more  straw  in  1882 
than  in  1881. 
The  Rotation  Barley  Field  in  1882  yielded  as  well  as  in  the 
preceding  year,  and  gave  rather  a better  sample  of  barley, 
weighing  2 lbs.  more  per  bushel  than  in  1881.  The  best  and 
largest  produce  in  barley  was  obtained  on  the  acre  manured  in 
previous  years  with  dung  made  by  feeding  sheep  or  bullocks 
with  decorticated  cotton-cake. 
In  Warren  Field  the  clover,  which  promised  well  in  the 
autumn  and  the  early  part  of  winter,  suffered  greatly  from 
continuous  rains,  and  the  imperfectly  drained  state  of  the  field. 
The  field,  moreover,  was  very  foul,  and  the  mild  winter  and 
plentiful  rain  in  spring  encouraged  the  growth  of  surface  weeds 
