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This was fairly successful, and, after considerable difficulty, 
a moderate crop of swedes was obtained. The roots were 
set out July 4-7, and again singled July 13-20. “ Finger- 
and-toe ” showed itself to a considerable extent, and the crop 
required a great deal of attention. Ultimately it did rather 
better than seemed at one time likely, and the roots were 
finally pulled and weighed December 6-10. The results are 
given in Table VII. 
Table VII . — Rotation III. Swedes , 1906. 
Stackyard Field. 
Plot 
Produce per acre. 
T. c. q. lb. 
1 
8 110 
2 
8 0 2 n 
3 
9 5 0 0 
4 
10 10 0 0 
The produce coming below the 12 tons per acre required, 
the balance to be fed off by sheep was made up with swedes 
grown on the headlands, and the sheep were put on the 
plots on December 14, 1906, to feed them off with, on plot 1, 
decorticated cotton cake, on plot 2, maize meal, and on plots 
3 and 4, the roots alone. 
Rotation IV. 1905, Barley. 1906, Green crop {Mustard). 
This rotation was the first one in which any direct results 
of the manuring with decorticated cotton cake or maize meal 
respectively could be looked for, as the kohl rabi crop of 1904 
was fed off with decorticated cotton cake on plot 1, maize meal 
on plot 2, and neither cake nor corn on plots 3 and 4. The 
subsequent barley crop of 1905, accordingly, was the direct 
product of the manuring adopted. 
The quantities of cake and corn were the same as given 
under Rotation I. in 1905, viz., 920 lb. per acre, with 12 tons 
of roots and 1^ cwt. of clover hay chaff. The sheep (150) took 
from January 16, 1905, to February 3, 1906, to do this. The 
land was ploughed at once and “ Hallett’s Chevalier” barley 
drilled at the rate of 9 pecks per acre on March 8. It was 
soon seen that plots 1 and 2 were considerably heavier than 
plots 3 and 4, and, of the two, plot 1 was apparently the 
bigger. The barley came into ear by June 19, but the heavy 
rains about this time laid the crop very considerably on 
plot 1. This interfered with its ripening properly, and 
though, had it “stood up,” it would have been by far the 
heaviest crop of the four plots, it was prevented from 
