256 riie WOhiirii Field Fxperimenfs, H>07. 
made witli decorticated cotton cake in addition, and the second 
with maize meal. The actual quantities of cake and maize 
consumed were : — 
C. q. lb. 
For plot 5 (half-acre). Decorticated cotton cake ..502 
For plot 6 (half-acre). Maize meal .... 5 0 2 
The two bullocks fed on decorticated cotton cake gained 
167 lb. in the time of feeding ; the two on maize meal 69 lb., 
whilst two fed without cake or corn lost 46 lb. in the period. 
The farmyard manure took 71 days to make ; the several 
lots were then removed and stored in a heap (though divided 
from one another) and covered with earth until required. The 
dung was applied May 25-29 to the respective plots at the rate of 
4 tons per acre to each. Swede seed (“ Monarch ”) was drilled 
on June 3 at the rate of 4 lb. per acre, and a nice plant soon 
showed itself. It was noticeable that spurry, which was 
abundant on the upper half (previously unlimed) of the 
rotation area, was entirely absent on this lower (limed) half. 
Throughout July and August plots 5 and 6 looked decidedly 
better than 7 and 8, and plot 5 (decorticated cotton cake) was 
better than plot 6 (maize meal). But in September the swedes 
were attacked by aphis, and the distinctions between the plots 
were not greatly marked as time went on. The crop was 
pulled and weighed December 16-24, and the results are given 
in Table VIII. 
Table VIII . — Botation II. Swedes, 1907. 
Stackyard Field. 
Plot 
Produce of roots per acre 
5 
Decorticated cotton cake dung . 
T. c. q. lb. 
15 11 3 23 
6 
Maize meal dung .... 
16 10 3 8 
7 
Dung without cake or corn . 
16 7 0 6 
8 
do. do. do. do. 
13 15 1 8 
It will be seen that plot 6 (maize meal) gave the heaviest 
crop, and that the average of the two plots 7 and 8 was 
15 tons 1 cwt. per acre, not much below that of the decorticated 
cotton cake plot (5). These weights hardly bore out the 
appearances which the crops had shown in the earlier periods, 
but they must be taken and recorded as they existed. The 
want of uniformity between the two plots 7 and 8 further tells 
against the satisfactoriness of the experiment. 
Rotation III. 1907, Barley. 
The swedes were fed off by sheep without cake or corn, 
February 13-28; the land was then ploughed, and “Chevalier ” 
