282 Report on the Field and Feeding Fsoperimenis at Wohurn. 
That tlie year was a disastrous one for root-growing will be 
readily admitted. It was with difficulty indeed that a plant 
could be obtained, and, as it was, the mangolds which were 
sown on April 28 on plots 5, G, 7, and 8 without manure, and 
which it was intended to cart off entirely, never came up suffi- 
ciently to form a plant, and had eventually to be ploughed up 
and the land re-sown with swedes. Plots 1, 2, 3, and 4 were 
drilled on May 23 with 3 lbs. per acre of swede seed, 3 cwt. of 
superphosphate being sown broadcast before the drill. Despite 
the terribly dry weather, the jilant was fair ; it was set out on 
June 17. The re-sowing of plots 5, 6, 7, and 8 with swedes 
took place also on June 17, 3 cwt. of superphosphate being used 
as before. This fortunately came up by June 25. The want 
of rain was of course greatly felt, and later on the plant became 
badly mildewed. Of the two sets the later sown fared rather the 
better. The roots were pulled and weighed November 21-29, 
and the weights were : — 
Table III. — Produce of Swedes (Rotation No. 1) m 1887. 
ri,oTs 
J-Acre 
Manures per Acre 
( 3 cwt. superphosphate (after i 
i wheat — cotton-cake plot) I 
( 3 cwt. superphosphate (after > 
t wheat — maize-meal plot) J 
13 cwt. superphosphate (after"] 
wheat with artificial I 
equivalent of cotton-cake [ 
dung) j 
13 cwt. superphosphate (after^ 
wheat with artificial I 
equivalent of maize-meal | 
dung) I 
j 3 cwt. superphosphate (after i 
1 wheat — cotton-cake plot) i 
1 3 cwt. superphosphate (after i 
I wheat — maizo-mcal plot) / 
13 cwt. superphosphate (after 
wheat with artificial 
equivalent of cotton-cake 
dung) 
13 cwt. superphosphate (afters 
wheat with artificial [ 
equivalent of maize-meal f 
dung) J 
Produce per Acre 
Roots 
Tons cwt. qrs. lbs 
10 18 1 20 
9 17 3 20 
11 0 0 4 
8 19 3 8 
10 14 0 8 
9 17 1 12 
9 14 1 4 
8 8 3 14 
Leaves 
Tons cwt. qrs. lbs. 
1 3 0 14 
0 16 1 12 
1 4 2 20 
0 19 2 4 
1 8 0 22 
0 18 1 8 
0 17 2 0 
0 17 2 16 
Produce per 
Acre of 
Wheat in 
1886 
Bushels 
20-5 
20-3 
151 
2515 
23- 4 
24- 8 
24-8 
It may be remembered that the crop of 1885 (tares and 
