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District of Columbia. 



Illinois 



Indiana 



Iowa 



Kansas 



Maryland 



Massachusetts 



Missouri 



New Hampshire 



New Jersey 



South Dakota 



Vermont 



Virginia 



West Virginia 



Total from the United States 163 



Foreign countries: 



Austria 10 



Canada 7 



Denmark i 



England 5 



Germany 9 



Hungary 3 



Ireland i 



Norway 4 



Scotland 2 



Sweden 15 



Switzerland 3 



Total from foreign countries 60 



The seed from the different sources was germinated in sterilized soil and 

 the plants were grown in small pots in a greenhouse until they had reached 

 sufficient size to be transplanted to the field. These first plants were 

 planted in the field in the fall of 1903, forty-two plants from each lot of 

 seed being grown. In each case these were planted in plats of two rows 

 each, the individual plants being three feet apart each way. Every third 

 plat of two rows was planted as a check plat with timothy seed from the 

 Cornell farm. By setting the plants in rows some distance apart, much 

 expense can be saved in their cultivation by the use of horse cultivators. 

 In the course of the experiments several distances of planting have been 



