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THE WOBURN EXPERIMENTAL 
STATION OF THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL 
SOCIETY OF ENGLAND. 
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I. FIELD EXPERIMENTS, 1904 192 
CONTINUOUS GROWING OF WHEAT . . . . .192 
CONTINUOUS GROWING OF BARLEY 196 
ROTATION EXPERIMENT ....... 197 
GREEN-MANURING EXPERIMENT .- - . .198 
CANADIAN WHEATS . . . . . . . .199 
LUCERNE .......... 200 
SAINFOIN .......... 201 
TRIFOLIUM INCARNATUM 202 
EXPERIMENTS ON PASTURE ...... 202 
1. Laying Down Land to Grass ..... 202 
2. Improvement of Old Pasture . . . . . * 203 
POTATO EXPERIMENTS ....... 203 
“ FINGER-AND-TOE ” IN TURNIPS ..... 204 
RAINFALL AT W^OBURN, 1904 ...... 205 
II. POT-CULTURE EXPERIMENTS, 1904 . . .205 
THE hills’ experiments. ...... 205 
1. (a) The Influence of Sulphate of Manganese and 
Sulphate of Iron on Wheat .... 206 
(5) The Influence of Silicate of Potash and Silicate 
of Soda on Wheat ...... 206 
2. (a) The Influence of Sulphate of Manganese and 
Sulphate of Iron on Barley . . . 208 
( b ) The Influence of Silicate of Potash and Silicate 
of Soda on Barley ...... 208 
III. INOCULATION FOR LEGUMINOUS CROPS, 1905 . 211 
I. FIELD EXPERIMENTS, 1904. 
Continuous Growing of Wheat (Stackyard Field), 
1904 (28th Season). 
DURING September and October, 1903, the land was cleared of 
twitch, scarified, and ploughed . On November 1, 10 pecks to the 
acre of wheat, “ Square-head’s Master,” were drilled, the seed 
having been previously treated with bluest one (sulphate of 
copper). Mineral manures were applied on December 17 to all 
the plots receiving them, bad weather having delayed their 
earlier sowing. Already by December 24 it was noticed that 
the plant on plots 2a, 5, and 8 (ammonia salts) was very scanty, 
the corn only showing in any strength round the edges of each 
