Rotation Experiments. 
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It will be noticed that the weighings bore out the appear- 
ances that the growing crops had presented. Plot 1 (decorti- 
cated cotton cake) produced 8 bushels more barley and 7 cwt. 
more straw than did plot 2 (maize meal), the latter being 
practically the same, as regards corn, as plot 3, but yielding 
2 cwt. more straw. The duplicate plots (3 and 4) differed by 
nearly 2 bushels of corn, and might well have been closer. 
Probably an average of the two would be the fairest reckoning, 
and this would give : — 
Plot 
Increase per acre over unmanured 
produce 
Corn 
Straw 
1 (decorticated cotton cake fed) . 
2 (maize meal fed) .... 
Weight 
C. q. lb. 
3 3 26 
0 1 26 
Bushels 
9-35 
1-35 
C. q. lb. 
10 0 23 
3 0 2 
The corn from plot 1 was hardly of as good quality as the 
other lots, not being so well matured. 
Rotation II. 1905, Green Crop {Mustard). 1906, Wheat. 
The kohl rabi of 1904 — 12 tons per acre — was fed off by 
150 sheep without cake or corn, from December 3 to December 
27, 1904, after which the land was ploughed and cultivated 
through the spring of 1905. Mustard was drilled in on July 
6, and the crop was ready for cutting on August 18. It was 
ploughed in as green stuff on September 2-4, and then wheat, 
“ Square Head’s Master,” was drilled in on October 6, 1905, 
at the rate of 9 pecks per acre. The crop was quite a fair one, 
and was ready for cutting on August 9, 1906. It was carted 
on August 17, threshed on November 15, and afterwards 
valued. The returns are given in Table V. 
Table Y. — Rotation II. Wheat , 1906. 
Stackyard Field — Produce per acre. 
Plot 
Head corn 
Tail corn 
Straw, 
chaff, &c. 
Weight 
Bush. 
Weight 
per 
bushel 
Weight 
• 
O. 
q. lb. 
Lb. 
Lb. 
C. 
q lb. 
1 
20 
0 4 
36-7 
6P2 
42 
27 
3 10 
2 
19 
2 17 
35-8 
6P5 
. 48 
27 
2 22 
3 
14 
3 22 
26-9 
62-3 
34 
21 
1 9 
4 
14 
3 27 
266 
63-0 
49 
21 
3 8 
Value of 
corn per 
quarter on 
basis of 
27s. 6d. 
s. d. 
27 0 
27 0 
27 0 
27 0 
