302 Experiments upon Wheat, Barley, and Swedes. 
Inspection of tliis table shows : — 
1st. That in no case was the crop so good as in the case of the 
wheat cultivated in the usual way. 
2nd. Plots in which the alternate wheat rows were obliterated 
were so nearly equal to those of ordinary wheat that, since half 
the seed might have been saved by sowing at once with a wide 
drill, the advantage is pretty equal in both methods. 
3rd. The forked wheat was generally worse than the corre- 
sponding unforked, a result borne out by the experiments of 
1865. 
4th. Since 25 and 26 bushels per acre were obtained from 
hciJf the land under crop in the cases of Plots 4 and 7, the 
question whether the interspaces would have borne as large a crop 
of wheat the succeeding year, as at Lois Weedon, is worthy of 
attention. 
The experiments made upon barley during the same droughty 
season point to a clear advantage from wide-drilling and inter- 
culture, as will be seen upon inspecting Table II. 
Table II. — Barley Experiments on the Eoyal Agricultural College 
Experimental Farm, 1868. 
PLOTS (,'5 Acres). 
Weight of 
Grain 
per Plot. 
Weight of 
Grain 
per Acre. 
Increase 
per Acre over 
Average of 
Unmanured 
Plots. 
Ordinary. 
Measure 
calculated at 
5H lbs. 
per Bushel. 
Increase^ in 
Bushels 
per Acre over 
Average 
Unmanured. 
Ordinary. 
Ordinary .. 
Alternate rows obliterated,'! 
Jlay 3rd / 
Alternate rows obliterated, ^ 
May 3rd / 
Alternate rows oblite-| 
rated, spaces forked,; 
Miiy 3rd ) 
Alternate rows oblite-j 
rated, spaces forked, > 
Average of 3 ordinary | 
Avera<.'e results of 21 
pli)ts, alternate rows? 
Average result of 2 plots, I 
alternate rows oblite-1 
rated spaces forked . . ) 
lbs. 
43- 75 
55-00 
51-75 
C3-00 
59-00 
42-00 
64-75 
44- 04 
59-00 
C2-00 
lbs. 
1750 
2200 
2060 
2520 
2360 
1680 
2590 
1830 
2360 
2480 
lbs. 
390 
690 
530 
660 
530 
650 
Bushels. 
30- 2 
38-0 
35-5 
43- 4 
40-7 
29-0 
44- 6 
31- 6 
40-7 
42-7 
Bushels. 
G'4 
11-8 
9-1 
13-6 
1 
11-1 
