Annual Report of the Consulting Chemist for 1883. 
3. Report on the Field and Feeding Experiments, conducted 
at Woburn during the year 1882. 
4. Reports on Lincohishire Soils. 
5. Report of Feeding Experiments on Sheep, conducted at 
Crawlej-Mill Farm, Woburn, with Linseed-cake and Barley- 
meal, Linseed-cake and Malt, Linseed-cake and Pea-meal. 
Analyses made for Members of the Royal Agricultural Society of 
England from 1st December, 1882, to 30th November, 1883. 
Fec'ling-cakes 465 
Feediag-meals 3o 
Com, hay, and vegetable iiroducts 27 
Cattle spices 3 
Superphosphates, dissolved bones, and compound) ggj^ 
manures f 
Guanos 69 
Bones, bone-meal, &c. 101 
Eefuse manures 16 
Manure -cakes 6 
Sewage-manures 12 
Fish-manures 7 
Dried blood 5 
Horns and hoofs 7 
Wool-dust and shoddy 36 
Nitrates of soda and potash 60 
Kainit and potash salts 31 
Sulphate of ammonia 17 
Soot 4 
Lime, chalk, shell-sand, and minerals 9 
Soils 61 
Waters 73 
Milk, cheese, butter, &c 6 
Articles of drink 3 
Examinations for poison 7 
Miscellaneous 14 
Total 1453 
The question of Ensilage has occupied my attention during 
the last three or four months, and a number of analyses have 
been made at the Laboratory, which I trust will throw light on 
the changes which green food undergoes in the Silo.* 
In the course of the year I paid twelve visits to the Experi- 
mental Fields at Crawley-Mill Farm. The wheat-crop in the 
Rotation Experiments at Woburn yielded about 5 quarters of 
head-corn, weighing 60 lbs. per bushel, and 6^ bushels of tail- 
wheat, weighing 52 lbs. per bushel, and from 2j to 2| of clean 
and strong straw. 
The Rotation-barley was a good crop, yielding 51 to 58 bushels 
* Owing to Dr. Voelcker's indisposition he has been unable to contribute his 
proposed paper ou the Chemistry of Ensilage to this number of tlio ' Jourivil.' — 
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