BULLETIN OF THE BUSSEY INSTITUTION, 305 
TABLE SHOWING THE Best AND THE Worst Bartry Crops 
OBTAINED IN 1874 By THE Usk or Mixep FERTILIZERS. 
Names and Weights of Names and | Weights of Names and Weights of 
Nos. of acer Nos. of e Nos. of Total 
the Squares.| Batley Grain. | 416 Squares.| Batley Straw. || tne Squares. | Barley Crops. 
ASE: 
Sep et 
4 
3 
6 
8 
Ek 6 
2 
6 
7 
5 
, FES 
A 
= 
ry 
The season of 1874 was on the whole not unfavorable for the growth 
of the experimental crops. The abundant rains of the spring and 
early summer enabled the barley in particular to grow much better 
this year than in 1873. ‘The beans also did fairly well in spite of the 
long-continued drought of July, August, and September. 
The same disturbing influences that were encountered in 1873 upon 
a few of the plots, figured at the top of the diagram, due to unfavorable 
mechanical condition of the soil as mentioned on page 128, were again 
met with upon those squares. In consequence of these exceptional con- 
ditions, the results obtained from the crops grown on the squares marked 
J, JJ, K, and KK, cannot be put in comparison with those from the 
other thirty-five squares. ‘These trifling exceptions, which for the rest 
are easily accounted for, do not in the least detract from the general 
result of the experiments ; namely, that the crops obtained by the use 
of the mixed fertilizers were excellent, both as compared with those 
obtained by the use of farm and stable manure, and with regard to the 
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