340 Report on the Field and Feeding Experiments at Wohurn. 
Hot weather followed in June, and the wheat progressed well^ 
coming into bloom in the last week, and showing a large ear. 
Heavy rains fell in July, accompanied by frequent storms, and 
the wheat got considerably knocked about, especially Plots S 
and 9. The maggot also began to appear to some extent. In 
August the weather improved greatly, and the wheat came on 
well. Inspecting the crops on August 3rd, 1883, I made the 
following notes on the permanent wheat :■ — 
Plot 1 (unmanured). Wheat healthy, and promising rather 
better than the second unmanured plot 7. 
Plot 2 (ammonia-salts alone). Wheat blighted in places. 
Plot 3 (nitrate of soda alone). Wheat rather better than 
plot 2. 
Plot 4 (minerals alone). No better than unmanured plots, 
except under a large tree, where the falling leaves no doubt 
manured the land. 
Plot 5 (minerals and 200 lbs. of ammonia-salts). Wheat fine, 
except on small plants, the ears of which are blighted. 
Plot 6 (minerals and small quantity of nitrate of soda). 
Wheat healthy, and apparently a big crop. Probably will yield 
as well as any. 
Plot 7 (unmanured). Wheat looks better than in any previous 
year. 
Plot 8a (minerals and 400 lbs. of ammonia-salts). Very heavy 
crop, a good many of the shorter stems have the ears blighted. 
The wheat has not gone down. 
Plot 8b (minerals alone, ammonia-salts left out in 1883). No 
better than, if so good as, the unmanured plots. 
Plot 9a (minerals and large quantity of nitrate of soda). 
Rather better than 8a, but attacked by red rust. 
Plot 9b (minerals alone, nitrate of soda left out in 1883). A 
little better than 8b. 
Plot 10a (no dung in 1883, for the second year). Decidedly 
better than plots 1 and 7. 
Plot 10b (small quantity of dung every year). Wheat good. 
Plot 11a (no dung in 1883, for the second year). Good. 
Plot 11b (large quantity of dung every year). Wheat much 
better than plot 11 A. 
From August 18th to 25th, a week of perfect harvest weather 
followed, and the cutting of the wheat commenced on August 
21st, continuing for a week, all not being ready to cut at once. 
The carting commenced on September 5th, and all was stacked 
by September 14th. The threshing took place in the field on 
October 23rd. The straw of the several plots was at once 
weighed in the field, and the corn put in sacks and stored in 
the granary until November 1st, when it was weighed with 
