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Section DD. — Barley. — 1871. Sxction DD. — Beans. — 1871. 
g Weights | 5 2) Weights § g| Weights s %| Weights 5 %| Weights 2 i Weights 
S : of barley S 2 of barley ‘S E vane S E of bean S = of bean ‘s = ce 
e &| grain. || g & straw. || ¢ = crops. | & = seeds. | 2 = straw. | ¢ = crops. 
a a A A a a 
4; 4.180 || 4 | 18.570 || 4 | 17.750] 4 | 4.530 || 4 | 5.020 || 4 | 9.550 
6 | 3.790 6 | 10.310 || 6 | 14.100] 5 | 2.030 2} 4.850 || 5 | 6.250 
2} 3.450 2 9.650 || 2 | 18.1007 2] 1.050 || 5 | 4.220 || 2 | 5.400 
9 | 3.090 3 9.170 || 3 | 12.0007 8 | 1.015 3 | 4.010 ,; 3 | 4.450 
8 | 2.922 8 8.678 || 8 | 11.600} 6 | 0.950 1 | 3.875 6 | 4.850 
3 | 2.830 5 8.488 || 5 | 11.2507 9 | 0.910 6 | 3.400 1 | 4.250 
5 | 2.762 1 8.185 |, 9 | 10.7509 3 | 0.440 8 | 2.835 8 | 3.850 
1 | 2.315 7 7.943 || 1 | 10.500] 1 | 0.875 9 | 2.790 9 | 3.700 
7 | 2.807 | 9} 7.660 || 7 | 10.250) 7 | 0.245 || 7 | 2.855 || 7 | 2.600 
The third set of tables, given below, are analogous to the preceding, 
but each of them includes the results obtained upon a pair of sec- 
tions ; i. e. upon one of the four main divisions of the field. The 
several crops are arranged as before in the order of excellence, from 
the best to the worst. It is to be remembered, however, that the con- — 
clusions drawn from comparisons between the different squares of a 
single section of the field (as in the second set of tables above) are 
naturally more to be depended upon than those based upon contrasts 
between the members of two sections, —i. e. of an entire division, — 
since it is not unlikely that the soil at one end of the long division 
_may differ somewhat from the soil at the otherend. The same reason- 
ing would discourage the idea of combining too closely the results of 
different sections or divisions not absolutely contiguous, though it is 
plain that another set of tables, as good as the third set, might be 
constructed by combining the results of any two adjoining sections of 
the field, as, for example, B and C, or BB and CC. As a general 
rule, however, inferences based upon the order of excellence, as laid 
down in the second set of tables, will be stronger than those drawn 
from the tables of the third set, or from comparisons such as have just 
been suggested. 
