22G Groicth of Barley. 
wheat in tlais year of fair prices made 1/. 4s. more per acre than 
the barley, but much of this difference must be laid to the account 
of a somewhat better soil and larger manuring. 
In 1861, 11 acres of land of the worst quality similarly treated 
yielded 68 quarters, or over 49 bushels per acre, which made 
nearly 120/., or nearly IIZ. per acre, selling for about 375. and 
36s. per quarter.* The heath turnip shift averaged 31 bushels. 
The whole barley shift, consisting of 125 acres, produced 640 
. quarters, sold for 1123/. In this year the heath-land wheat, 42:^ 
acres, averaged only 24 bushels 3 pecks per acre, the early sown 
yielding 12 bushels per acre less than a late sown piece. It was 
sold at prices varying from 51s. to 58s. per quarter, and at these 
comparatively high rates made nearly 9/. per acre or 2/. less than 
the barley. 
In 1662 the trial was renewed on 17 acres, which yielded 89^ 
quarters of head corn sold at 37s., and 5 quarters of tail valued 
at 30s. The yield was therefore more than 5^ quarters, and the 
value more than 10/. per acre. Of the adjoining wheat, 10 
acres only has been threshed ;t this yielded 39^ quarters of head 
corn, which having been sent early to market made 58s., and 
2 quarters 3 bushels of tail-corn. The sum realised was 106/. 10s., 
or 10/. 12s. per acre ; but at present prices it would make only 
9/. per acre, and our early supplies are necessarily limited. 
If we combine the results of these four consecutive years, the 
value of the respective crops per acre will be as follows : — 
Value per acre of Barley Value per acre 
(on whole furrow). of Wheat. 
£. s. d. £. s. d. 
1859 8 9 0 7 0 0 
1860 8 4 0 9 10 0 
1861 (nearly) .... 11 0 0 9 0 0 
1862 over 10 0 0 10 12 0 
37 13 0 36 2 0 
Average 9 8 0 9 0 6 
But if we base our calculation for 1862, not on the small 
portion of the crop sold in harvest time, but on the general range 
of prices for the year, the value of that crop will be reduced to 
9/., which would pull down the wheat average to 8/. 12s. 
The advantage derived from manuring and cultivating one- 
fifth or one-sixth of the ordinary wheat shifts at leisure on a light 
soil in a bleak climate, where backward wheats are in jeopardy. 
* III this year, however, a small part received a folding, as -well as a light coat 
of manure. 
t The remainder, just threshed, has yielded 27 bushels, now only worth 11. Is. 
per acre. 
