498 Bulletin 280. 



Red-top had encroached to a sHght extent upon some plots where 

 it was not sown. Its spread has not been rapid. The soil does not 

 seem favorable here for its best development. After the third year 

 it began to decrease on plot 2. 



As a pasture this plot is poorer than the neighboring plot which was 

 sown to Kentucky blue-grass. It is now producing other grasses in 

 large numbers, especially Canadian blue-grass. However, it is by 

 far a better plot than any other which was sown to one grass alone, 

 with the exception of the check plots which were sown with Kentucky 

 blue-grass. 



PLOT 3 



36 lbs. meadow fescue per acre 



At the end of the first year there was not over one-half a stand of 

 grass on this plot. In June, 1907, only ten per cent, of the herbage 

 was meadow fescue. The remainder consisted of Canadian and Ken- 

 tucky blue-grasses, clover and weeds. By the next summer meadow 

 fescue had nearly disappeared from the plot. At the present time 

 there is only one plot which is poorer than plot 3. This it plot 7 which 

 was seeded to smooth brome-grass. Perhaps one reason why meadow 

 fescue has not succeeded alone is because of the preference of cows for 

 this grass. In the early days of the pasture it was eaten closely, and 

 in preference to other grasses. 



PLOT 5 



20 lbs. timothy per acre 



The timothy produced a good stand at once. It seems well adapted 

 to this type of soil. This was one of the best plots during the first three 

 or four years of the pasture. In June, 1907, the herbage on plot 5 

 consisted of ninety per cent, timothy. The remainder was chiefly 

 clover and weeds. 



During the last two years timothy has largely disappeared from 

 the plot. Canadian blue-grass and weeds are the chief plants remaining. 



PLOT 6 



28 lbs. orchard-grass per acre 



Orchard-grass when sown alone has not been promising in this experi- 

 ment. By the end of the first year there was not over three-fourths 

 of a stand of this grass. Weeds were crowding it in places. 



In 1907 the stand was still rather poor and non-uniform. Since then 

 the orchard-grass has become much more scarce. There is now but 



