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higher results than in 1883, but hardly above the average of 
the unmanured plots, while where dung had been again applied, 
the produce, especially in the case of the heavier dressing, was 
much increased. 
EXPEEIMENTS ON THE CONTINUOUS GROWTH OF BaRLET. 
The land was broken up with the grubber on September 18, 
1883, and ploughed on October 24th. 
Four bullocks, to make dung for plots IOb and 11b, were 
put under experiment on November 20th, and finished on 
December 14th. In this period they consumed — 
cwts. qrs. lbs. 
Decorticated cotton-cal^e 2 2 0 
Maize-meal 4 0 0 
Sliced white turnips 30 0 0 
Wheat-straw chaff 5 00 
and had besides 12 cwt. of wheat-straw chaft as litter. 
The weights at the beginning and end of the experiment 
were : — 
Put up, 
Nov. 2u. 
Removed, 
Dec. 14. 
Gain in Live- 
weight in 
Twenty-four 
Days. 
„ No. 2 , 
„ No. 3 „ 
„ No. 4 „ 
Total weight of 4 Bullocks 
cwts. qrs. lbs. 
9 1 16 
8 3 8 
9 0 10 
9 0 11 
cwts. qrs. lbs. 
9 2 2 
9 0 27 
9 2 1 
9 2 16 
cwts. qrs. lbs. 
0 0 14 
0 1 19 
0 1 19 
0 2 5 
36 1 17 
37 3 18 1 2 1 
These bullocks, with the exception of No. 4, did not irfcrease 
as much or so uniformly as the four, similarly fed, which made 
the dung for the permanent wheat. 
The food given and the proportions were the same as in the 
latter case, already described. 
The dung was removed from the pits on December 14th, and 
covered over until February 13th, 1884, when it was weighed, 
the total being 26 cwts. 3 qrs. 1 lb. It was applied that day 
to the half-plots 10b and 11b in quantities estimated to contain 
100 lbs. and 200 lbs. of ammonia respectively per acre. 
The mineral manures had been previously sown on January 
IGth. On March 19th the land was scuHled, rolled, and drag- 
liarrowed, and the seed, " Oakshott's Golden Melon," drilled 
in on the 20th at the rate of 9 pecks per acre. The first week 
in April the barley began to appear, and on the 11th the nitro- 
