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mineral manures for plots 3 and 4 were sown on P'ebruarj 17th. 
On April 3rd the land was again pressed ; it was horse-hoed and 
harrowed on the 10th ; the wheat then looked very clean, and on 
that day the nitrogenous top-dressings were sown on plots 3 and 4. 
The attacks of the wireworm were felt at the close of April, 
and the heavy rain of May caused the weeds to come up badly. 
At the close of June the wheat came into bloom, showing a good 
ear, but the storms of July did a good deal of mischief. The 
red maggot did not appear to such an extent as in the case of 
the permanent wheat. Visiting the plots on August 3rd, after an 
improvement in the weather, I remarked on the plots as follows : — 
Plot 1 (decorticated cotton-cake plot). Wheat splendid ; appa- 
rently the best of the four plots. 
Plot 2 (maize-meal plot). Nearly as good as plot 3. 
Plot 3 (large quantity of nitrate of soda). Wheat taller than 
on plot 4 (small quantity of nitrate of soda) — not so well matured 
as on the other three plots ; wheat 5ft. 5in. high. 
In August the wheat got rapidly ripe, and was cut on 
August 27th. Carting took place on September 4th and 
5th, and the wheat was threshed in the field on October 23rd 
and 24th. The corn, after a short storing, was winnowed 
and weighed on November 1st, the yields of corn and straw 
being shown in Table IV. (p. 354). 
Compared with last year the yield in 1883 was higher, but 
on each plot there was a very much larger quantity of tail-corn 
than then ; the straw, on the other hand, was somewhat less. 
The same differences noted in 1882 were again visible now, 
plot 3 again showing the poorest yield and the largest amount 
of tail-corn. Between the total yields of the other 3 plots there 
Ivas not much to choose, the number of bushels, taking head 
and tail corn together, being in each case 46 and a fraction. 
Rotation No. ^. — Four acres. 1878, mangolds ; 1879, barley ; 
1880, seeds ; 1881, wheat ; 1882, swedes ; 1883, barley. 
Barley, 1883. — The swedes grown on the land in 1882 were 
fed off on the field by sheep, which were put on the swedes on 
November 29th and which finished on March 26th. The land was 
then ploughed up at once ; and the seed, 8 pecks of Oakeshott's 
Golden Melon per acre, was drilled in on March 30th and 31st. 
The nitrogenous top-dressing was sown on April 21st. The 
land was hoed on May 10th, and on the 18th white Dutch 
clover was sown between the barley. 
The previous swede crop of 1882 had been manured as 
follows : — 
Plot 1.— With dung, made from 1350 lbs. straw as litter ; 5000 lbs. 
mangolds ; 1250 lbs. wheat-straw chaff, and 1000 lbs. decorti- 
cated cotton-cake. 
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