136 Keport on the Field and Feeding Experiments at Wohum. 
the adverse season of 1879, produced better crops than in the 
preceding year. Considering that only 6 tons of dung were put 
on plot 11, and the extremely bad wheat-growing season, 
18"7 bushels of dressed wheat, weighing 55:j lbs. per bushel and 
24 cwts. 20 lbs. of straw per acre, may be regarded as a satis- 
factory result, which clearly proves that it is desirable to apply 
dung on light land short and well rotten, and not in a long, fresh 
condition. The cost per acre of the artificials employed in the 
experiments on the continuous growth of wheat and barley was 
the same as in the preceding year, namely : — 
£ s. 
On Plot 2. Ammonia-salts alone 2 2 
„ 3. Nitrate of soda alone 2 0 
4. Minerals alone 3 5 
„ 5. Minerals and ammonia 5 7 
„ 6. ilinerals and nitrate of soda . . . . 5 5 
„ 8. Minerals and ammonia 7 9 
,, 9. Minerals and nitrate of soda .. .. 7 5 
The Experiments on the Continuous Geowth of 
Baeley. 
The manures applied for the barley were the same as those 
for the wheat experiments. 
The mineral manures, as well as the ammonia-salts and 
nitrate of soda, were sown by the broadcast manure-distributor 
on the 8th of March, 1879, and the barley was drilled in on the 
18th of March. 
The dung used in the barley experiments was produced by 
four bullocks fed and kept in precisely the same manner as 
the four bullocks which made the manure for the wheat experi- 
ments. The dung, estimated to contain nitrogen corresponding 
to 100 lbs. of ammonia per acre for one plot, and 200 lbs. of 
ammonia per acre for the second plot, was put on the land 
on the 25th and the 27th of January, 1879 : — 
Total Food consumed by Four Bulhclcs in Five Weeks. 
Decorticated cotton-cake 5 cwts. 
Maize-meal 8 cwts. 
White turnips 3 tons. 
"Wheat-straw chaif 10 cwts. 
Wheat-straw, cut into chaff about 2 inches long, Hi cwts. used as htter. 
Accordingly, the four bullocks gained 56| lbs. per week, or, 
each bullock on an average, 14 lbs. per week, or 2 lbs. per day. 
The barley was cut on the 30th of August, 1879, and carted 
and thatched on the 20th of September. 
