Agricultural investigations at Rothamsted, England, during a period of fifty yearsSix lectures delivered under the provisions of the Lawes Agricultural Trust . [Mineral manure commencing each course: crop of roots, 1892, 11 tons Gi cwts. per acre.]. [Mineral ami nitrogenous manure commencing each course; crop of roots, 1892,24 tons 18 cwts. per acre.] FlG. G. —Swedish turnips, grown in 4-course rotation, in Agdell field; forty-fifth year, 1892; first crop, twelfth course. THE BARLEY CROPS. Table 57 gives the produce of barley, the second crop of the course,and therefore always succeeding the r
Agricultural investigations at Rothamsted, England, during a period of fifty yearsSix lectures delivered under the provisions of the Lawes Agricultural Trust . [Mineral manure commencing each course: crop of roots, 1892, 11 tons Gi cwts. per acre.]. [Mineral ami nitrogenous manure commencing each course; crop of roots, 1892,24 tons 18 cwts. per acre.] FlG. G. —Swedish turnips, grown in 4-course rotation, in Agdell field; forty-fifth year, 1892; first crop, twelfth course. THE BARLEY CROPS. Table 57 gives the produce of barley, the second crop of the course,and therefore always succeeding the roots, in each of the eleven yearsin which it was grown, in precisely the same form as that of theSwedish turnips recorded in Table 56; the upper division giving thegrain per acre, the middle division the straw, and the lower one thetotal produce, grain and straw together. As in the case of the root crops, so in that of the barley; the prod-uce in the first course is excluded from the calculation of the aver-ages to which reference will chiefly be made. Indeed, the results of thefirst year of barley confirm the conclusion that the land was in some-j! what high condition, due to recent accumulations. The produce off the tenth and eleventh co
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