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straw of each plot was weighed in the field, and the corn of 
each plot bagged, carefully labelled, and stored in the granary 
until the 20th of October, when the gross weight of corn from 
each plot was ascertained, the whole of the produce was 
measured out, and the weight of each bushel taken. In each case 
the gross weight agreed well with the weight obtained by adding 
the weights of the number of bushels which each plot produced. 
Table I., on the next page, shows at a glance the treatment 
of each plot as regards manure, and the results of the harvest 
of 1881. 
The wheat was cut and stacked in a capital condition before 
the wet weather at harvest-time set in. 
Although the wheat-crop in 1881 yielded badly in many parts 
of England, the wheat at Woburn turned out better than in any 
previous year since the institution of the Experiments. 
It will be in the recollection of most persons that the spring 
and early part of summer of 1881 was fine, warm, and pro- 
mising a good corn-harvest. Unfortunately the prospects of a 
good corn-harvest were blighted in many places by the cold and 
wet weather which set in towards the end of August. 
Fortunately the wheat-crop on Crawley Farm, Woburn, 
arrived at early maturity, and was cut on the 12th of August, 
and was safely stacked before the continuous wet weather in 
August and September set in. It is worthy of notice that the 
wheat had been sown as early as the 20th of October, 1880, for 
I am much inclined to think that owing to this circumstance the 
wheat was in a sufficient advanced state of growth when the 
fine spring weather of last season set in, and in a condition to 
derive greater benefit from the warm and genial weather in July 
than wheat sown later in the autumn. 
Both in the experiments on the continuous growth of wheat 
and in the rotation experiments the wheat in 1881 looked more 
luxuriant throughout the season than in any of the preceding 
five years. 
After having grown without manure five crops in succession, 
the experimental field in 1881 grew the sixth crop of wheat, 
which was heavier than in the second or any of the preceding 
five years. This is all the more surprising, because the soil of 
the experimental field is rather a light and good barley-soil 
than good strong wheat-land. 
The influence of season in connection with early or late 
sowing is strikingly shown in the results of the wheat-harvest of 
1880 and 1881. Last year the wheat was dibbled in as early as 
the 20th of October. In less than a fortnight it germinated and 
pushed through the soil, and in a month's time after sowing a 
strong and even plant could be noticed on the field. 
