REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR 



35 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



Group 2. 



In eacii of the divisions of this group there were also three plots. In the tipper 

 three in each table, the crops were sown after clover, grown in 1901, and ploughed 

 iinder in the autumn of that year; the lower three show the crops where no clover was 

 grown. In divisions 3, 6 and 9 the effect is also shown, on the crops of 1903 and 1904, 

 of allowing the clover sown in 1901 to grow for two seasons and ploughing it under 

 in the autumn of 1902. 



Division 3. 



5 Crops in 1902-3-4, after clover in 1901 



6 Crops in 1902-3-4, on plot where no clover was 



grown in 1901 



Gain from the use of clover . 



7 Crops in 1903-4, on plot where clover was allowed to 



grow two seasons 



8 Crops in 1903-4, on plot where no clover was grown 

 in 1901 



1902. 



Corn 

 Selected 

 Leaning. 



Yield 

 Per Acre. 



Tons. Lbs. 

 20 800 

 15 — 



1903. 



Potatoes, 

 Everett. 



1904. 

 Menscrt Baelkt. 



Yield 

 Per Acre. 



Yield of 

 Barley. 



Per Acre. 



Weight of 

 Straw. 



Per Acre. 



Bush. Lbs. 'Bush. Lbs, 



800 



Gainirora the use of clover. 



202 



45 — 

 38 16 



32 



35 



24 



06 



00 I 



24 



Lbs. 

 3,840 

 3,750 



90 



3,720 

 2,210 



1,510 



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