360 Report on the Field and Feeding Experiments at IVohurn. 
horse-hoe and harrows. On May 22nd the land was hand-hoed. 
The peas bloomed well in the middle of June, and looked very 
healthy ; they were still blooming at the end of July. Visiting 
the plots on August 3rd, I could notice no difference between 
any of them. Cutting began on August 14th and continued 
till the 17th ; then the peas were allowed to dry, and were 
carted and stacked on August 28th and 29th, a very heavy crop 
being realised. Threshing took place on December 13th and 
14:th, when the results set forth in Table VII. (p. 359), were 
obtained. 
These experiments, like those in Warren Field, were carried 
on in duplicate. 
In these trials the natural variations in the productive powers 
of the soil of the plots of section A and those of section B, as had 
been already noticed in the barley crop of 1882, vitiate the 
value of the experiments ; thus, for example, the unmanured 
plot 1a yielded 35*4 bushels, weighing 19 cwts. 3 qrs. and 12 lbs,, 
and the duplicate unmanured plot 1b gave 42*8 bushels, weigh- 
ing 23 cwts. 3 qrs. 6 lbs., or 4 cwts. more per acre. Similar 
differences are observable in other duplicate plots, especially 
plots 4a, 4b, and 5a, 5b. 
In face of these objections, I can only conclude that Lansome 
field is unsuitable for the purposes of experiment, on account of 
the natural variability of the soil of the different plots — a 
conclusion strengthened by the previous year's experiments with 
barley. 
Rainfall at Woburn during 1882 and 1883. 
1882. 
1883. 
First Half-yeak — 
incbes. 
inches. 
1-33 
1-95 
1-50 
2-98 
•98 
•89 
3-41 
1-55 
1-75 
1-40 
2-10 
2-89 
11 
07 
11'66 
Second Half-yeau — 
July 
2-41 
3-07 
1-G4 
•84 
2-58 
381 
4-72 
182 
3-30 
237 
2-33 
•63 
07 
12-54 
28 
14 
24-20 
