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On the Continuous Growth of Wheat on the 
the whole, very cold, stormy, and inclement, and the early 
spring was unusually cold and backward. Later in the spring 
the weather became very warm with a dry atmosphere, and 
towards the end, some heavy rains fell. The combined condi- 
tions brought the crops very rapidly forward. June was also dry, 
hot at the beginning, though afterwards comparatively cool ; July 
was hot, with a good deal of rain, but, upon the whole, a dry 
atmosphere ; the greater part of August was cool and very wet, but 
the remainder, and September, very hot and dry, favouring the 
rapid completion of the hitherto much retarded harvest work. 
Thus, after a severe winter and late spring, the growing period 
was characterised by great heat, dryness of atmosphere, and a 
deficient amount and distribution of rain ; the ripening period 
by an excess of rain, followed, however, by an eventually favour- 
able, though late harvest time. 
Table II. — Scmmaet of the Eesults of the TwEXTT-SECoyD Season, 
1861-C5. 
Produce per Acre, &c. 
Plots. 
MannrfS. 
(Quantities per Acre.) 
Dressed Corn. 
Total 
Corn. 
Straw 
aud 
Chaff. 
Quantity. 
Weight 
per 
Bushel. 
3 
2 
10a 
9b 
5a & B 
Ga & b| 
7a & b| 
- { 
8a & b| 
400 lbs. ammonium-salts alone = 86 lbs. N. 
550 lbs. nitrate of soda alone = 86 lbs. N. 
200 lbs. ammonium-salts = 43 lbs. X. .. j 
400 lbs. ammonium-salts = 86 lbs. N. ..J 
550 lbs. nitrate of soda = 86 lbs. X. . . ( 
600 lbs. ammouium-salts = 129 lbs. X. .. r 
bush. pks. 
13 l\ 
37 0^ 
25 0| 
29 2\ 
14 0| 
24 33 
40 1 
44 01 
43 2i 
Iba. 
GO-6 
61-5 
59-6 
59- 5 
60- 9 
60- 9 
61- 6 
611 
Gl-4 
lbs. 
828 
2384 
1649 
2005 
915 
1605 
2580 
2881 
2833 
lbs. 
1033 
3100 
2385 
3137 
1176 
2021 
3669 
4682 
4600 
Estimated average for the United Kingdom 
30 2^ 
010 
The wheat crop of 1865, although much inferior to that of 
the two preceding years, was still above the average. The 
highest produce in the field was on the Mixed Mineral Manure 
and Nitrate Plot, which yielded 44 bushels per acre, weighing 
61 lbs. per bushel. The plot receiving farmyard dung gave 
37 bushels per acre, which is considerably above the average 
of this plot. 
