346 Report on the Field and Feeding Experiments at Wohurn. 
On March 27th the land was ploughed up and the barley 
drilled in on March 31st, 8 pecks per acre of Oakshott's Golden 
Melon being used. The barley came up well and uniformly. 
To plots 1, 2, and 4 no manure was used further than had been 
applied to the previous swede crop, but to plot 3 the remaining 
one-third of the nitrogen, equivalent to that in the manure from 
1000 lbs. of decorticated cotton-cake, was applied in the form of 
a top-dressing of nitrate of soda on April 25th. About March 
7th a great many wire-worms appeared and gave considerable 
trouble ; a great number of them were destroyed. The land was 
hoed on May 12th and 13th. About June 26tli the barley came 
into ear, showing a good even crop. 
The inspection of July 17th showed : — 
Plot 1 (cotton-cake plot). Barley a good deal down. 
Plot 2 (maize-meal plot). Barley standing up well. 
Plot 3 (artificials equivalent to cotton-cake dung). Barley 
more beaten down than on plot 4. 
Plot 4 (artificials equivalent to maize-meal dung). A heavy 
crop, a little down, but not as much as on plot 3. 
On August 18th the barley was cut, and carted the following 
day, the weather being all that could be desired. The produce 
was threshed in the field on October 23rd and 24th, the straw 
weighed at once, and after storing of the grain the latter was 
winnowed, measured, and weighed on October 29th. The 
results are given in Table III., p. 347. The yield was not so 
heavy as the exceptional one of 1883, but higher than in other 
years. The highest yield was obtained from plot 3, manured 
with artificials equivalent to the decorticated cotton-cake dung, 
but there was only a small difference between plots 1, 2, and 3. 
Plot 4 gave the lowest result of all. Plot 3 had in 1883 given 
the best result with the swede crop of this rotation, and with the 
swede crop, similarly treated, of 1882 (rotation 4), ' 
Rotation No. 2. — Four acres. 1877, mangolds ; 1878, barley ; 
1879, seeds; 1880, wheat; 1881, mangolds; 1882, barley; 
1883, seeds. 
Wheat, 1884. — The seeds, Dutch white clover, sown among 
the barley crop of 1882, were fed off between July and October 
1883 by sheep, which consumed, on plot 1, 672 lbs. of decorticated 
cotton-cake as additional food, on plot 2, 728 lbs. of maize-meal, 
but on plots 3 and 4 no additional food. The land was ploughed 
up on October 18th, 1883, and Browick wheat at the rate of 8 
pecks per acre drilled in on November 27th. The wheat came 
up well, and on January IGth, 1884, mineral manures were 
sown on plots 3 and 4, and the nitrogenous top-dressings on 
March 27th, the two kinds of manure together making up in arti- 
