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day previous. It came up quickly, and on September 4th, the 

 crimson had a few blossom heads. At this time the red and the 

 crimson were about the same size, and covered the ground. The 

 alsike was only about half as large as the other two. All of these 

 plots had a good deal of barnyard grass at this date, while that 

 sown one month later had none, and was quite free from all 

 weeds. The crimson clover of this plot is all dead in the spring 

 of 1896, while the red and alsike are about the same size, and 

 both cover the ground nicely. 



^^Plot No. 3. — July 16, 1895. Sowed three and one-half acres 

 of crimson clover in orchard. It came up quickly and covered 

 the ground completely, and was admired by all. Much of it was 

 killed during the winter, although it wasi in a sheltered place 

 where the snow did not blow off. The ground was rather low. 

 It was plow^ed under about May 15, 1896, leaving the ground in 

 finer and better condition than we have ever seen it on that plot. 



"Plot No. 4' — July 16, 1895. Sowed! three more strips of the 

 three clover orchards, as in plot No. 2. This all came up well, 

 and did not have weeds growing in it, as did plot No. 2. In the 

 spring of 1896 the strip of crimson is nearly all killed, while the 

 red is as large as the red of plot No. 2, and the alsike about half 

 as large. 



"Plot No. 5. — On July 18th, plowed under five acres of stubble 

 in open field, after cutting off a crop of hay. Sowed it all to 

 crimson clover, w^hich came up quickly and covered the ground 

 well before winter. This spring it was in fine condition and 

 covered the ground completely, except a small strip through one 

 side, where the snow had evidently been blown off from a ridge. 

 This plot is located on the east side of a large piece of woods, 

 which shelters it from the west winds, which are our prevailing 

 winds. This plot was plowed .May 11th this year and planted to 

 corn. 



"Plot No. 6. — August 17th. Sowed three more strips in orchard 

 similar to plot No. 2, but a shower, just as we were finishing the 

 harrowing, prevented our rolling it. Neither of these strips grew 

 in the fall of 1895, and it is apparently a failure. 



