284 Reiwrt on the Field and Feeding Experiments at Wohum. 
Table V. — Produce of Peas (Rotation No. 2) in 1887. 
Plots 
i-Acre 
Manures per Acre 
(No manure (after barley — i 
1 cotton-cake plot) . . . / 
fNo manure (after barley — i 
I maize-meal plot) ... I 
I No manure (after barley with 'v 
124 lbs. nitrate of soda— I 
artificial equivalent of cot- 1 
ton-cake dung) .... J 
C No manure (after barley with \ 
\ no manure — artificial equi- v 
( valent of maize-meal dung) j 
Produce 
per acre 
Weight) 
Xumber 
of 
Bushels 
Weight 
per 
Bushel 
Straw, 
&c. 
cwt. qrs. lbs. 
lbs. 
cwt. 
qrs 
. lbs. 
20 0 0 
34-6 
64-8 
17 
1 
3 
17 1 7 
29-8 
65-07 
14 
1 
3 
13 3 ICi 
24-2 
64-31 
13 
1 
9 10 
161 
64-44 
15 
3 
11 
some extent this is continued. Still, tares and peas are at best 
uncertain crops, and were only sown because clover, owing to the 
alteration of the plan of the experiments, had not been sown 
with the barley. The evidence of unexhausted fertility is 
strong when it is remembered that the plots 5, 6, 7, 8 produced 
in 1885 11 tons of mangolds, which were carted off entirely; 
then, without further manure, 35 bushels of barley ; and now 
(still without manure) 30 bushels of peas. 
Rotation No. 3. — Four aci-es. 188G, tares (2 acres), peas (2 
acres); 1887, wheat. 
The tares and peas were both reaped in 188G, and the suc- 
ceeding wheat (8 pecks of Browick wheat per acre) was drilled 
on Oct. 23. It ripened well, though towards the close it was 
badly attacked by the Hessian fly. It was cut and stacked 
Aug. 11-13, 1887. On account of the attack by Hessian fly 
the stubble was cut quite 9 inches high, which accounts for the 
very small yield of straw recorded. — (See Table VI. opposite.) 
Rotation No. 4. — Four acres. 1886, swedes (2 acres), 
mangolds (2 acres) ; 1887, barley. 
The swedes on the one half of the rotation had been grown 
in 188G with 3 cwt. mineral superphosphate per acre, the 
produce being : — 
Plots 
Manures 
Cotton-cake plot 
Maize-meal plot 
Artificial equivalent of cotton-cake dung . 
Artificial equivalent of maize-meal dung . 
Produce of Swedes 
per Acre in 1886 
tons cwt. qrs. lbs. 
4 13 8 20 
8 15 2 4 
7 15 2 20 
7 9 1 10 
