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slighter extent on plot 10a than on plot 11a, to which double 
the quantity of dung had been applied previous to 1882. On 
plot 11a, a crop of 38 bushels of barley was grown, although no 
<lung had been applied to it since _1881, or almost as much as 
had been produced on plot IOb, annually manured with small 
quantities of dung. The produce of the larger dose of dung 
on plot 11b, it will be seen, was very satisfactory, as it 
amounted to 51'3 bushels, weighing 53-1 lbs. per bushel, and 
gave an increase of 24'8 bushels over the average produce of 
the two unmanured plots Nos. 1 and 7. 
The Experiments in Rotation. 
Rotation No. 1. — 1877, seeds ; 1878, wheat ; 1879, man- 
golds ; 1880, barley ; 1881, seeds ; 1882, wheat. 
Swedes, 1883. — The land was ploughed for the first time on 
Sept. 4th. The dung for the swedes was made by 8 bullocks, 
which were put into the feeding-boxes on November 21st, and 
"which finished making the manure for plots 2, 3, and 4 on 
January 19th, having occupied 8 weeks and 3 days, and for 
plot 1 on January 21st, a period of 8 weeks and 5 days. 
During these periods the bullocks consumed the following 
amounts of food : 2 bullocks (for plot 1) consumed 923 lbs. of 
decorticated cotton-cake, 5000 lbs. of mangolds, and 1250 lbs. of 
wheat-straw chaff ; two others (for plot 2} consumed 1000 lbs. of 
inaize-meal in place of decorticated cotton-cake ; while four others 
(for plots 3 and 4) received only the mangolds and wheat-straw 
chaff, all eight bullocks having been alike supplied with 1880 lbs. 
of wheat-straw chaff as litter. The following Table gives the 
weights of the bullocks when put in the feeding-boxes on 
November Slat, and wlicn removed on Januaij" lOtli and 21st, as 
w ell as the increase of live-weight in the period of feeding : — 
When put in, 
on Nov. 21. 
When loraovcd, 
on Jan. 21. 
Incre.ise<J in 
liTe-weight, 
from Nov. 21 
to JatL 21. 
2 Bullocks, 1 and 2, receiving decor- 1 
ticated cotton-cake as additional^ 
•2 IJidlocks, 7 and 8, receiving maize-l 
cwls. qrs. lbs. 
20 1 7 
20 3 21 
cnts. qi-s. lbs. 
21 0 10 
Ou Jun. 19. 
22 1 19 
cwu. qrs. lbs. 
0 3 3 
To Jan. 19. 
1 1 23 
2 Bullocks, 3 and 4, fed without coke'l 
19 1 15 
19 0 9 
loss 1 G 
H Bullocks, 5 and 6, fed without cake"! 
18 1 18 
18 3 7 
0 1 I" 
