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permanent in soils which will produce good yields of Kentucky blue- 

 grass. 



The order of palatability of the various grasses used in this pasture 

 seems to be as follows: Smooth brome, timothy, meadow fescue, 

 meadow foxtail, orchard-grass (when young) Kentucky blue-grass, and 

 red-top. The cattle have shunned red-top wherever it grew, whether 

 alone or in mixtures. It would be difficult to say what position in this 

 respect Canadian blue-grass holds. The cows do not seem to have 

 any objection to it as it is always closely browsed. 



THE CLOVER PLOTS 



After the grass plots had been laid out, there was left a section of 

 the field to the north which was seeded with clover and alfalfa. Red, 

 alsike and white clovers were sown alone. A plot was also sown to alfalfa. 

 During the summer of 1905 there was a fairly good stand of alfalfa 

 and white clover on the plots which received these seeds. The stand of 

 red and alsike clovers was not quite so good. All these plots were 

 closely browsed by the cattle. By the summer of 1907 they had prac- 

 tically all disappeared. Their places had been taken by various weeds 

 and grasses. At the present time the chief grass occupying the space 

 is Canadian blue-grass. The amount of forage on the clover plots is 

 comparatively slight. It compares very unfavorably with the amount 

 found on the plots which received Kentucky blue-grass seed. 



THE FERTILIZER PLOTS 



In order to determine the value of various fertilizers on a newly 

 seeded pasture, the field was divided into thirteen plots. These were 

 laid out at right angles to the plots containing the various seeciings. 

 They run east and west. The system of numbering is by means of 

 letters of the alphabet from a to m. Plot a is on the south side of 

 the field. The kinds of fertilizers and the amounts used are indicated in 

 the following table. 



