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MANURING EXPERIMENTS WITH PADDY RICE. 
storm, but only a few stems were broken. A fortnight after the 
storm we collected the dried panicles from all plots in order to 
avoid losing them by the wind, and to get a reliable basis for 
correcting the damage sustained by the storm. After all, 
the summer of 1889 was exceptionally unfavourable to the rice 
crop, especially to the medium and late varieties, which suffered 
from the hurricane just in their most sensible phase of develop¬ 
ment. Official returns give the loss caused by the storm to 
20-30%, in some districts to 40 % of the general average yield. 
On the 6th and 7th of November the rice was cut. In each 
plot a bundle was selected before cutting, representing the 
medium condition of the crop, and from the 3 parallel plots of 
each trial that bundle which again appeared to be the medium 
of the three was taken out. The 4 plates annexed to this 
report are faithful reproductions of these photographs and will 
afford a good illustration of the effects of the different manures. 
After the crops had become uniformly dry, the straw, full 
grain, and empty hulls were weighed, the full grain was hulled 
on a small machine and the weights of the hulled grain and 
hulls separately determined. Afterwards we ascertained the 
weight of 1000 hulled grains and 1000 undeveloped hulls 
damaged by the storm, an got thus the data requisite for a 
calculation of the total yield of hulled grain which would have 
been obtained if in each empty hull a normal, grain had 
developed. In the following pages the figures obtained in the 
latter way are quoted as “ corrected yield ” of grain. 
A detailed record of the results obtained on each plot will be 
found in the appendix. The following table contains the 
averages from the parallel trials :— 
