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wheat was not affected at all. The crop was cut and harvested 
July 29-August 5, 1887 ; the results are given in Table VIII. 
The duplicate uumanured plots show considerable difference, 
but taking the mean of them we find that for the third consecvi- 
tive year the highest result has been obtained by the decorti- 
cated cotton-meal used direct as manure (plot 3), while on this 
plot the most straw also has been produced. It is probable that 
plot 1 more truly represents the unmanured produce, but the, 
entire crop was but a poor one on this land. 
Crawley Mill Farm is situated near Wobui'n, Bedfordshire ; 
the soil is a very light reddish loam, about nine inches deep, 
with a subsoil of almost pure sand. 
Rainfall at Woburn during 1887, taken at 8 a.m. daily at 
Crawley Mill Farm. 
January 
February 
March . 
April . 
May , 
June . 
Inches 
1-79 
0- 41 
105 
1- 33 
1-30 
1-69 
July . 
August 
September 
October 
November 
December 
Inches 
0-64 
0-85 
177 
0-96 
2'19 
106 
Total rainfall in year l.'j-Oi 
Rainfall in 1882, 1883, 1884, 1885, 1886, and 1887. 
1883 
1883 
1884 
1885 
1886 
1887 
15-04 
28-14 
24-20 
17-84 
24-97 ! 25-05 
During the Harvest Months op August and September 
the Rainfall was — 
1883 
1884 
1885 
1886 
1887 
4-63 
2-76 
6-65 
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2-62 
XV. — Annual Report for 1887 of the Consulting Entomologist. 
By Eleanor A. Ormerod, F.R.Met.Soc, Torrington 
House, St. Albans. 
During the twelve months since I rendered my preceding annual 
Report, there have been constant applications regarding in- 
jurious insects. These have chiefly been regarding the attacks 
of the Hessian fly, the corn saw-fly, and also the ribbon-footed 
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