Beport on the Field and Feeding Experiments at Wohum. 287 
The root crop being so small, the whole of it was fed off by 
sheep, with additional foods as follows : — 
Plot 1 (half-acre) . . with 200 lbs. decorticated cotton-cake 
,,2 „ . • • }) 200 lbs. maize-meal 
„ 3 „ . • . „ no purchased food 
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A little wheat-straw chaff (70 lbs. per ^ acre) was also given 
to the sheep. On plots 3 and 4, artificial equivalents of the 
cotton-cake and maize-meal dung respectively were applied to 
the succeeding barley. The sheep were put on the roots Dec. 2, 
1886, and finished them by Dec. 31. After ploughing, barley 
(8 pecks of " Golden Melon " per acre) was drilled on March 24, 
1887, over the whole rotation. The nitrogenous manures were 
sown on plots 3 and 4 on May 10. 
On the lower half of the rotation, mangolds had been grown 
in 1886, the produce being : — 
Plots" 
Manure 
Produce of Mangolds 
per Acre in 1886 
5 
6 
7 
8 
Artificial equivalent of cotton-cake dung . . 
Artificial equivalent of maize-meal dung . . 
tons cwt. qrs. lbs. 
17 8 1 2 
'19 1 1 20 
'19 18 3 14 
!18 13 2 14 
These were carted off entirely. The barley (of 1887) did 
not make much progress at first owing to the continued cold, 
but came up fairly well, and was cut and harvested Aug. 12-16. 
The results are given in Table VII. on p. 286. 
From these figures it will be seen how striking was the 
difference when even such a small crop of swedes had been fed 
off by sheep, and when mangolds, 10 to 16 tons per acre, were 
carted off entirely. The top-dressings of nitrate of soda on plots 
3 and 4 would appear to have been rather more effectual than 
the dung; the difference between the cotton-cake and the maize- 
meal, though indicated, is not very pronounced. 
Experiments on the Comparative Manurial Values of 
Decorticated Cotton-cake and Maize-meal, conducted 
IN Lansome Field. 
1885, barley; 1886, broad clover; 1887, wheat. On 
October 16, 1886, 9 pecks per acre of Essex rough-chaff wheat 
were dibbled, this variety being tried for a change of seed. It 
is worthy of remark that, while the red wheat sown on all the 
ether fields suffered from the Hessian fly attack, this white 
