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so marked as where (see Table IV.) the cake or corn was given 
direct to sheep feeding on the land. 
On the other hand the application of farmyard manure to 
the land, though made without cake or corn (plots 7 and 8), 
has given a better return in the barley crop than where the 
swedes were fed off by sheep without cake or corn (plots 3 and 
4, Table IV.). These figures bid fair to give interesting results 
in the future as regards the comparative efficiency of cake and 
of corn, whether fed, in the one case, to sheep on the land, or, 
in the other, to bullocks in feeding boxes and subsequently 
applied as manure to the land. 
Rotation III. 1908, Green crop {Mustard) — after Barley (1907). 
This rotation not having come yet into regular order, it will 
be enough to record the weights as given in Table IX. 
Table IX . — Rotation III. Mustard, 1908. 
Stackyard Field. 
Plot 
Green produce per acre 
T. 
c. 
q- 
lb. 
5 
4 
7 
2 
0 
6 
4 
1 
3 
0 
7 
4 
4 
0 
14 
8 
3 
10 
0 
14 
Rotation IV. 1908, Swedes — after Wheat (1907). 
The previous wheat crop had not come into regular rotation, 
but the new plan commenced with this Rotation (IV.) in 1908, 
the farmyard manure for the swede crop being made in the 
feeding boxes during the winter of 1907 and applied to the 
plots early in June, 1908. The quantity of dung that went on 
was 4 tons per acre. That for plot 5 was made by two 
bullocks which, in addition to roots, chaff, and hay, had 
decorticated cotton cake given to them. The bullocks making 
dung for plot 6 had maize meal in place of decorticated cotton 
cake, while those making dung for plots 7 and 8 had only 
roots, chaff, and hay. The quantity of cake or meal given was 
equivalent to 10 cwt. on each acre over which the manure was 
• to be spread. The dung was ploughed in June 10-13, swede seed 
being drilled on the latter date. The crop on this half clearly 
showed the benefit of the manorial applications, being half as 
large again as the corresponding crop on the upper half (sheep- 
feeding). It is worthy of special note, however, that the cake- 
fed or the corn-fed manure gave no better crop than that made 
without cake or corn. It should be pointed out that a nearly 
similar result was obtained in 1907 in the corresponding case 
of Rotation II., but the present returns are of a more uniform 
