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THE  WOBURN  EXPERIMENTAL 
STATION  OF  THE  ROYAL  AGRICULTURAL 
SOCIETY  OF  ENGLAND. 
FIELD  EXPERIMENTS,  1910.  page 
CONTINUOUS  WHEAT 322 
CONTINUOUS  BARLEY  326 
ROTATION  EXPERIMENTS 328 
GREEN-MANURING  EXPERIMENT 332 
VARIETIES  OF  LUCERNE 333 
EXPERIMENT  ON  THE  USE  OF  LIME 334 
EXPERIMENTS  WITH  NITROGENOUS  TOP-DRESSINGS  . . 335 
(a)  On  Oats  .........  335 
( b ) On  Mangolds  ........  336 
(c)  Residual  Value  of  top-dressings  ....  337 
SUGAR-BEET 338 
VARIETIES  OF  WHEAT 339 
MANURING  OF  OLD  PASTURE  LAND 341 
MISCELLANEOUS  EXPERIMENTS 342 
RAINFALL  AT  WOBURN,  1910 343 
POT  CULTURE  EXPERIMENTS,  1909  . . . .343 
FIELD  EXPERIMENTS,  1910. 
The  season  1910  must  be  classed  as  a bad  one.  The  seeding 
time  for  wheat  was  very  trying,  the  land  being  wet  and  cold, 
and  delaying  germination  very  much,  so  that  the  wheat  never 
appeared  until  Christmas  time.  Then  followed  a cold  spring 
and  an  almost  sunless  summer.  Between  January  1 and  the  end 
of  April  there  were  sixty-seven  days  on  which  rain  in  measurable 
amount  had  fallen,  and  the  highest  temperatures  recorded  were 
57'6°  F.  to  the  end  of  March  and  02°  F.  to  the  end  of  April. 
In  May  there  were  twenty  days  on  which  rain  fell,  sixteen  in 
June,  thirteen  in  July,  and  no  less  than  twenty-one  in  August. 
The  average  temperature  in  June  was  66-7°  F.,  in  July  64‘8'  F., 
and  in  August  67'4"  F.  But  for  splendid  weather  in  September, 
the  crops  would  have  fared  much  worse  than  they  did.  The 
season,  following  as  it  did  the  very  bad  one  of  1909,  was 
especially  hard  on  corn  crops  grown  continuously,  and  great 
difficulty  was  experienced  in  keeping  the  land  clean,  this 
accounting  for  the  continuously  grown  barley  results  being 
so  inferior.  The  season  was  more  favourable  for  root  crops 
and  also  for  grass,  fair  returns  being  reached  in  each  case. 
Continuous  Growing  of  Wheat  ( Stackyard  Field), 
1910  (34th  Season). 
This  experiment  was  carried  out  on  the  same  lines  as  in 
1909,  the  small  dressing  of  5 cwt.  per  acre  of  lime  on  plot  2aa 
being  again  repeated. 
