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Mr. Cbatfield reported as follows: 



Plot 1. Barley grew to a height of ten inches and about 25 per cent 

 lived through the winter and stood knee-high on May 15, at the time 

 of plowing. 



Plot 2. Barley made quite a showing in the fall and some of it lived 

 through the winter. The crimson clover did well and seemed to be 

 neither improved nor injured by the barley. It lived through the win- 

 ter and made a fair cover, but not so good as in Plot 7. 



Plot 3. Could see very little difference in Plots 2 and 3. 



Plot 4. Oats came up well and grew from one foot to sixteen inches 

 high. 



Plot 5. Oats made a good growth, none lived over. Crimson clover 

 made about the same growth as in Plot 2. 



Plot 6. About the same as in Plot 5 only that Mammoth clover did 

 not mature as early as the Crimson clover. 



Plot 7. Crimson clover made a good growth in the fall and lived 

 through the winter. It covered the ground well and stood knee-high at 

 time of plowing. 



Plot 8. Mammoth clover got a good foothold in the fall ; lived 

 through the winter well and made a good cover for the ground but the 

 plants were not so high nor as nearly matured at the time of plowing 

 as Crimson clover. 



Plot 9. Vetch came up well but did not make much growth in the 

 fall. It lived over winter and grew very rapidly in the spring, and, at 

 the time of plowing, covered the ground very thoroughly, some plants 

 reaching a length of six feet. It was very difiQcult to turn under with 

 an ordinary plow. 



The oats sowed over half of Plots 7, 8 and 9 made a good growth in 

 the fall and although they were killed by the early frosts, they stood 

 up w^ell and aided materially in holding the leaves and snow. At the 

 time of plowing in the spring, very little difference in the growth of 

 the clovers could be noticed between the sections where oats were used 

 and where the clover was sown alone. 



The soil in which the vetch was sown was sandy loam of good fer- 

 tility. The remaining plots were on rather heavy clay, and a crop of 

 fruit was gathered from the trees about three weeks after the seed 

 was sown, which injured it somewhat. The seed of the cover crops 

 was sown on August 28th and the land was plowed about May 15th. 



T. A. FARE AND. 



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