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being marked. Plot 1 (decorticated cotton-cake dung) was 
somewhat better than plot 2 (maize-meal dung). 
Table V. — Produce of Swedes, 1884 (Rotation No. 3), 
after Wheat. 
Plots 
of One 
Acre. 
Produce pee Acre. 
Roots. 
Leaves. 
1 
'With dung, made from 1880 lbs. straw] 
as litter; 5000 lbs. mangolds; 1250 
1 lbs. wheat-straw chatf, and 1000 lbs. | 
Tons. cwt. qrs. lbs. 
14 9 3 16 
Tons. cwt. qrs. lbs. 
1 18 0 27 
2 
[With dung, made from 1880 lbs. straw] 
1 as litter; 5000 lbs. mangolds ; 1250 ( 
1 lbs. wheat-straw chaff, and 1000 lbs. 
13 
13 0 G 
1 16 1 9 
3 
With dung, made from 1880 lbs. straw' 
as litter; 5000 lbs. mangolds ; 1250 
lbs. wheat-straw chaff; and artifi- 
cial manure, containing two-tliirds 
as much nitrogen, and the other 
constituents, of the manure from! 
1000 lbs. decorticated cotton-cake ;| 
namely, 248 lbs. nitrate of soda, 
100 lbs. of bone-ash (made into 
superphosphate), 62J lbs. sulphate of 
potash and 65 lbs. sulphate of mag- 
nesia •• . . 
16 
10 1 0 
2 17 3 2 
4 
With dung, made from 1880 lbs. straw' 
as litter ; 5000 lbs. mangolds ; 1250 
lbs. wheat-straw chaff ; and artificial 
manure, containing as much nitro- 
gen, and other constituents, as the 
manure from 1000 lbs. maize-meal ; 
namely, 80 lbs. nitrate of soda, 16^ 
lbs. bone-ash (made into superphos- 
phate), 7 lbs. sulphate of j>otash, and 
, 11 lbs. sulphate of magnesia .. 
15 
14 2 9 
2 16 3 10 
Rotation No. 4.^ — Four acres. 1878, mangolds ; 1879, barley ; 
1880, seeds ; 1881, wheat ; 1882, swedes ; 1883, barley. 
Seeds, 1884. — The seeds, white Dutch clover, had been sown 
among the barley of 1883 on May 18th, 1883. A good plant 
was obtained, and forty sheep, ten on each acre plot, were put on 
for the first time on May 7th, 1884, and finished on June 9th. 
The ten on plot 1 received per head per day about ^ lb. of decor- 
ticated cotton-cake additional, those on plot 2 about ^ lb. of 
maize-meal, the other two lots no additional food. The results 
after going over for the first time were :-- 
