Report on the Field and Feeding Experiments at Wohurn. 131 
Bulloclcs making Manure for Permanent Wlieat Experiments. 
Cwts. qrs. lbs. 
No. 1 9 13 1 Total weight of 
„ 2 9 12-4 1 four bullocks on tho 
„ 3 10 0 8 ( 3rd Oct., 1878, 
„ 4 9 1 8 J 1 ton 18 cwts. 15 lbs. 
Each bullock received daily as food : 4 lbs. decorticated cotton- 
cake, about ()J lbs. Indian corn meal, 48 lbs. of white turnips and 
8 lbs. of wheat-straw chaff ; and by the 5th of November, that 
is in five weeks, they had consumed : — 
Decorticated cotton-cake 5 cwts. 
Indian corn-meal 8 cwts. 
White turnips 3 tons. 
Wheat-straw chaff 10 cwts. 
and, trodden into dung, 11 J cwts. of wheat-straw, cut into chaff 
of about 2-inch length. 
When the dung was removed from the boxes it was short 
(straw chaff having been used as litter), fairly well-fermented, 
and in a condition fit for being placed on the land at once. In 
order to prevent loss of more or less of the soluble and most 
valuable fertilising constituents during November, December, 
and- January, it appeared to me advisable to delay the appli- 
cation of the dung to the land until the end of January. In the 
meantime the dung removed from the feeding-boxes on the 5th of 
November was put into a covered hovel, closed in on all sides. 
On the 24th of January, when the dung was applied to the 
wheat, it was weighed, and the requisite quantity, containing 
the calculated amount of ammonia required, namely, nitrogen 
equal to 100 lbs. of ammonia on plot 10, and 200 lbs. on 
plot 11, was applied to these experimental plots. 
The four bullocks fed as stated above, and kept in feeding-boxes 
littered with 11 J cwts. of wheat-straw, cut into chaff about 2 inches 
long, in round numbers, made 2|- tons of rotten dung, weighed 
after having been kept for nearly three months under cover. 
The dung was applied to the land as a top-dressing ; and 
when I inspected the experimental field on the 7th of March, 
1879, it had become well amalgamated with the land ; the soil 
was firm and the wheat looked well and promising. 
On the 5th of November the bullocks which made the dung 
for the wheat experiments weighed as follows : — 
Gain from Oct. 3 to Nov. 5, 1879 
(5 weeks). 
Cwts. qrs. lbs. qrs. lbs. 
No. 1 .... 9 2 5 — 1 2 m , 1 • • 
„ 2 .... 9 2 17 - 0 21 ^^V" 
„ 3 .... 10 1 27 - 1 19 L 5T = 
!, 4 .... 9 2 26 - 1 22 ) 1 ''^^^ ^ 'I'"- * 
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