5. Top-dressed at once.
6. Top-dressed at 4 intervals.
7. Peruvian.
8. Ichaboe.
The season of 1845 was more favorable for wheat, than that of 1844, and the crops on all the plots were better. On plot No. 3, which had no manure last year, or this, the yield is 23 bushels per acre, against 15 bushels last year.
Last year, the 14 tons of barn-yard manure gave an increase of only 5¼ bushels per acre. This year it gives an increase of nearly 9 bushels per acre.
“Do you mean,” said the Deacon, “that this plot, No. 2, had 14 tons of manure in 1844, and 14 tons of manure again in 1845?”
“Precisely that, Deacon,” said I, “and this same plot has received this amount of manure every year since, up to the present time—for these same experiments are still continued from year to year at Rothamsted.”
“It is poor farming,” said the Deacon, “and I should think the land would get too rich to grow wheat.”
“It is not so,” said I, “and the fact is an interesting one, and teaches a most important lesson, of which, more hereafter.”