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1 to 2 lbs. less per bushel than the barley in Rotation No. 1 
in the preceding year. On plot 3, top-dressed with nitrate of 
soda, the greatest weight of straw was produced, and on plot 1 
(cotton-cake plot) also more straw, but not more corn than on 
the two remaining plots was obtained. 
Rotation No. 4. — Four acres ; 1878, mangolds ; 1879, barley ; 
1880, seeds ; 1881, wheat. 
Wheat, 1881. — The seeds were fed in 1880 by sheep, which 
were taken off the land on the 1st of October, when it was 
ploughed up and got ready for wheat-sowing. Browick wheat, 
at the rate of 8 pecks per acre, was drilled on the 21st of 
October, 1880. The mineral manures were sown on the 26th 
of February, 1881, and the nitrate of soda was applied as a top- 
dressing on the 30th of March, 1881. The wheat was well 
above ground on the 11th of November. It was cut on the 
10th of August, stacked on the 20th of August, and threshed out 
in the field on the 11th of October. The straw and chaff were 
weighed in the field at the time of threshing, and the corn was 
kept in labelled bags in the granary until the 19th of October, 
and weighed and measured on the 19th and 20th of October, 
when the results shown in the Table opposite were obtained. 
The wheat-crop on all four acres was strong and luxuriant 
throughout the season. 
In plots 3 and 4, especially plot 3, dressed with the larger 
amount of nitrate of soda, the colour was darker green in spring 
than on the two other plots, and towards harvest the straw 
appeared somewhat stronger on plots 3 and 4, than on the two 
remaining acres. 
On all four acres the straw was very strong and healthy, and 
the actual weighings when the wheat was threshed out showed 
that on plot 3, dressed with the large dose of nitrate of soda, 
6 cwts. more straw was obtained than on the cotton-cake and 
maize plots ; and on plot 4, top-dressed with the smaller pro- 
portion of nitrate of soda, about 6 cwts. more straw was produced 
than on plots 1 and 2. 
The differences in the yield of corn on the four acres, it will 
be noticed, were but trifling. The quality of the wheat was 
good ; on three of the four acres it weighed 60 lbs. per bushel, 
and on plot 3, which gave the largest produce of straw, and a 
little more corn, the wheat weighed 59^ lbs. per bushel. 
Taking head and tail wheat together. 
Plot 1 produced 5G'4 bushels of wheat. 
11 2 „ 57*4 
11 3 „ 58"9 „ 
„ 4 „ .55-8 _ „ 
In 1880 the wheat crop on Rotation No. 2, in the same field, 
