404 On the Continuous Growth of Wheat on the 
provided an unusual amount of winter grazing-, which greatly 
compensated for the previous deficiency. Owing to the con- 
dition of the land, spring sowing was retarded. The weather 
in March was both dry and cold, and in consequence vegeta- 
tion was much checked ; a rapid recovery however took place 
under the influence of very warm, though somewhat dry, 
weather in April. The remainder of the spring was very cold, 
and also wet ; June, again, for the most part was cold, and 
July warm ; most of August was cold, but the latter part of the 
month and September were hot, while the summer was com- 
paratively dry, though the harvest-time was somewhat unsettled. 
Table VI. — Summary of the Eesults of the Twenty-sixth Season, 
1868-69. 
8a & 
Manures. 
(Quantities per Acre.) 
Produce per Acre, &c. 
Dressed Corn. 
Quautit}-. 
ibnsh. pks. 
Unmanured j 14 
14 tons farmyard-manure I 38 
40O lbs. ammonium-salts alone = 8G lbs. N. 
550 lb.s. nitrate of soda alone = 8G lbs. N. I 
Mixed mineral manure alone 
Mixed mineral manure, and ^ 
200 lbs. ammonium-salts = 43 lbs. N. . . / 
Mixed mineral manure, and \ 
400 lbs. ammonium-salts — 8G lbs. N. . . / 
Mixed mineral manure, and ^ 
550 lbs. nitrate of soda = 86 lbs. N. . . / 
Mixed mineral manure, and ^ 
600 lbs. ammonium-salts = 129 lbs. N. .. / 
20 
24 
15 
Estimated average for the United Kingdom"! n 
reckoned at 61 lbs. per bushel / 
Weight 
per 
Busliel. 
21 21 
I 
28 1? 
39 0 
34 8 
lbs. 
56-1 
56-9 
54-9 
54-6 
56- 9 
57- 2 
57-5 
57-1 
57-2 
Total 
Corn. 
61-0 
lbs. 
848 
2256 
1210 
1452 
942 
1309 
1760 
2368 
2096 
The extreme fluctuations of temperature which marked this 
season are visible in the very low quality of the produce : in 
only one experiment does the weight of the bushel reach 58 lbs., 
while the yield of the crop generally was large, and even when 
calculated upon a standard of 61 lbs. per bushel, was slightly 
over an average. 
Twenty-seventh Season, 18G9-70. 
Until the middle of October the autumn of 1869 was for the 
most part warm, with a good deal of rain. From that time until 
the end of the year the weather — though including some rapid 
