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tenth acre each, and nine half plats of one-twentieth acre each. These 
plats were two rods north and south and eight rods east and west for 
the whole, and four rods east and west for the half plats. Plats 1 to 
5 were the most uniform in appearance. On April 4 each wheat plant 
on plats 3 and 9 was trampled; on April 7 and 8 spaded plat 4 so as 
to obliterate four drills and leave two; spaded in like manner plat 13 
and trampled the plants left; and on April 14 spaded in like manner 
plat 14, but rolled the spaded portion immediately with a garden roller, 
so that two rollings lapped in the central line of the spaded portion. 
April 17 harrowed plats 2, 7, 11 and 16 with Thomas Smoothing Har- 
row, lengthwise the rows, the harrow weighted by a man riding and 
rolling plats 11 and 16 after the harrowing. No especial care was 
exercised to preserve the plants. May 15 plats 10 and 17 were mown, 
the wheat being from ten to eleven inches tall. During growth we 
were unable to find sufficient difference, to be ascribed to treatment, 
to deserve noting. 
The crops were cradled on July 19 and 20, and it was noted that on 
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1 2 3 4 5 6 v4 8 9 
plats 4, 13 and 14 the heads were slightly larger than in, the other 
plats. On plats 10 and 17 the heads were noted as being ‘short and 
green. | 
Threshed August 8 and yield noted, : 
Plat 1. Single drilled, not interfered with. Yield, 2074 lbs. grain, 
234 ibs straw. 
Plat 2. Single drilled. Harrowed. Yield, 1884 lbs. grain, 228 lbs. 
straw. 
Plat 3. Single drilled. ‘Trampled. Yield, 1792 lbs. grain, 232 Ibs. 
straw. 
Plat 4. Single drilled. Four rows obliterated by spading. Yield, 
93 lbs. grain, 115 lbs. straw. 
Plat 5. Single drilled. Not interfered with. Yield, 2193 lbs. grain, 
276 lbs. straw. 
Plat 6. Partly single, partly cross drilled. Not interfered with. 
Yield, 2304 lbs. grain, 316 Ibs. straw. 
Plat 7. Cross drilled. Harrowed, Yield, 2522 lbs. grain, 367 Ibs. 
straw. 
Plat 8. Cross drilled. Not interfered with. Yield, 2371 lbs. grain, 
304 lbs. straw. 
Plat 9. Cross drilled. Trampled. Yield, 2332 lbs. grain, 325 Ibs. 
straw. 
Plat 10. Single drilled. Mown. Yield, 652 lbs. grain, 102 Ibs. 
straw. 
Plat 11. Single drilled. Harrowed and rolled. Yield, 803 lbs. grain, 
100 lbs. straw. 
Plat 12. Single drilled. Not interfered with. Yield, 87 lbs. grain, 
108 Ibs. straw. 
