Experimental Plots at Rothamsted, from 1864 to 1883. 413 
Table XII. — Scmmaky of the Eh^sults of the Thirty-second Season, 
1874-75. 
riots. 
Mamucs. 
(Quantities per Acre.) 
Produce per Acre, &c. 
Dressed Corn. 
Total 
Curn. 
Straw 
and 
Chaff. 
Qu-mtity. 
Weight 
per 
Bushel. 
3 
2 
10a 
9is 
ijA. Oil D 
6a & b| 
7a & b| 
9a I 
8a & b| 
400 lbs. ammonium-salts alone = 8G lbs. N. 
550 lbs. nitrate of soda alone = 80 lbs. N. 
200 lbs. ammonium-salts = 43 lbs. N. . . / 
400 lbs. ammonium-salts = 86 lbs. N. ../ 
550 lbs. nitrate of soda = 86 lbs. N. . . ) 
1 600 lbs. ammonium-salts = 129 lbs. N. .. J 
biisli. pks. 
8 2J 
28 3i 
12 3 
■ 16 2 
IG 11 
25 3J 
CO 2 
29 33 
lbs. 
60 0 
60-6 
54- 5 
55- 7 
59-4 
GO-3 
59-5 
57- 9 
58- 2 
lbs. 
567 
1890 
786 
1050 
590 
1688 
1965 
1937 
lbs. 
1008 
3719 
1574 
2363 
1125 
2008 
3422 
4747 
4323 
Estimated average for the United Kingxloml 
22 31 
610 
The season was remarkable for the great floods which pre- 
vailed all over England in the month of July ; these did con- 
siderable damage to the wheat 3rop, and both on the dunged 
and artificially manured land the yield was 10 bushels per acre 
less than that of the previous year. The yield of the country 
was estimated to be greatly below an average. 
Thirty-third Season, 1875-76. 
October was generally cold and wet ; November up to the 
19th was rather warm ; this was followed by a period of ex- 
tremely cold weather, with a considerable fall of snow, which, 
owing to the high winds, did not cover the wheat, but drifted to 
the hedges. The weather of this period was very similar to 
that of 1874; but this year the cold came to an end on the 
17 th of December, when warm weather prevailed until the close 
of the year. 
The rainfall was greatly in excess in October, slightly so 
in November, and below the average in December, January 
was alternately very warm and extremely cold, the cold, how- 
ever, predominating ; the middle of February was also very 
cold, but the latter part of the month and the beginning of 
March were unusually warm ; this was followed by three weeks 
