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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 1G 



CLOVER EXPEKIMEXTS. 



Experiments were again conducted this season for the purpose of determining 

 the gain, if any, from growing clover with 'grain crops for the purpose of turning 

 under the growth made during the season for the benefit of future crops. The ground 

 was tlie Siiino as that on which simiLar clover experiments were conducted last season. 

 The soil was a clay loam in a fair state of fertility. Three kinds of grain were sown 

 and each of these series of plots were treated the same. Six plots were seeded down 

 at the time the grain was sown, May 31, with Mammoth Red clover at the rate of 10 

 pounds per acre, and six with grain alone without clover.' These plots were sown in 

 a similar manner last season, and those seeded to clover this year had been seeded to 

 clover last year, and those not seeded to clover this season had not been seeded to 

 clover last year. The ground was ploughed in the fall and this spring was worked 

 up with the disc, springtooth and smoothing harrows and the seed sown with the seed 

 drill. The growth of clover on these plots was very light in 1903, consequently no 

 very groat difference in the y-eld per acre of grain from them this year could be ex- 

 pected. The clover on the plots seeded to clover was again imusually light and although 

 .starting well was killed out badly by the continued dry weather during June and July. 

 Late sown grain rusted badly; especially was this the case with late sown wheat. The 

 White Fife series of plots were so badly rusted that the crop was not worth threshing 

 for the grain alone. The wheat was cut August 30; the oats, August 31; and the 

 barley, August 27. The plots were one-fortieth acre each and gave the following yiehls 

 per acre. 



EXPERIMENTS WITH CLOVER SOWN WITH GRAIN. 



SPECTAL EXPEKIMEXTS WITH FERTILIZERS. 



.Special experiments with fertilizers of various kinds commonly used for field cropi 

 have been conducted for the past five years. It was decided that the further fertilizing 

 of the^se plot? should be abandoncti and the land seeded to grain for some years, to 

 determine the extent to which these fertilizers already applied would continue to supply 

 the crop ivith the required plant food. Aceordiilgly the field was seeded entirely to 

 grain, !^[ammoth Red clover was sown on one-half of the field at the rate of 10 pounds 

 per acre at the same time. The other half was not seeded to clover. 



