Report on the Field and Feeding Experiments at Wohurn. 343 
genous top-dressings of nitrate of soda and ammonia-salts were 
sown in good weather. The barley came up well, and on the 
30th inst. there was a good and healthy plant on all the plots. 
Here and there wire-worms were picked out. The nitrogenous 
manures, having been sown much later than on the wheat, 
did not at this date show any effect, April having been very 
dry. On May 14-16 the land was hoed. About June 24th 
the barley came into ear, but the heavy rain threw down some 
of it, plots 8b and 9b especially suffering. My notes taken'on 
July 17th were as follows : — 
Plot 1 (unmanured). Healthy, but rather thin. 
Plot 2 (ammonia-salts alonej. Barley stands up well, not 
quite as good as No. 3, which has, however, gone down 
a good deal in places. 
Plot 4 (minerals only). Lighter coloured than No. 1, and 
not quite so thick. 
Plot 5 (ammonia-salts and minerals). Stands up well. Best 
plot of those on which the barley has not gone down. 
Plot 6 (nitrate of soda and minerals). Heavy crop, but 
beaten down. 
Plot 7 (unmanured). Somewhat down. 
Plot 8a (minerals only). Like unmanured. 
Plot 8b (ammonia-salts and minerals). Barley down. 
Plot 9a (minerals only). Not better than unmanured. 
Plot 9b (nitrate of soda and minerals). A heavy crop, but 
beaten down flat on the ground. 
Plot 10b and llB (farmyard dung). The dung shows plainly 
as compared with IOa and 11a. 
As in the case of the wheat the fine weather at the close 
made the barley ripen very well and quickly, and it was cut 
August 6th and 7th, carted on the 15th, and stacked. It was 
threshed on the field on October 22nd, and the straw weighed, 
the corn being stored and finally weighed on October 28th. 
The results are given in Table IL, p. 344. 
The unmanured plots gave on an average higher results than 
in 1882 and 1883, and about the same as in 1881. 200 lbs. of 
ammonia-salts and 275 lbs. of nitrate of soda gave almost identical 
results as to corn, and a great increase above the unmanured 
plots. The nitrate gave a rather large yield of straw. Minerals 
alone did not do better than where no manure was applied. 
The addition of minerals to 200 lbs. of ammonia-salts did not 
increase the produce, but minerals added to 275 lbs. of nitrate of 
soda caused a rise from 51*6 bushels to 57-8 bushels, and gave 
much more straw than was obtained by the ammonia-salts and 
minerals. Minerals with a double quantity (400 lbs.) of 
ammonia-salts gave 59 3 bushels as against 51'9 bushels with 
