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fifteen acres, bordered on the north by a wood of second-growth pine, 

 hemlock and chestnut. About two-thirds of the field was rather heavy 

 clay soil, and descended sharply to the north; the remainder consisted 

 of two gravelly knolls and an acre of fairly level, rather light land, on 

 which stood a half dozen large, decaying apple trees. 



During the summer of 1876, the greater part of the field was used for 

 growing Indian corn, the smaller and poorer part for growing ox-eyed 

 daisies. In the spring of 1877 the whole area was sowed to oats which 



Fig. 163. — The Roberts pasture at Cornell University. This field has been 

 a permanent pasture for more than thirty years. The pasture contains a 

 heavy stand of grasses of various kinds. Kentucky blue-grass and white 

 clover are prominent. 



ripened early and gave an unsatisfactory yield. Immediately after 

 harvest, the field was thoroughly fitted, a little farm manure spread 

 on the knolls, and seeded to wheat in early September. About two 

 weeks thereafter it was lightly sowed with timothy, two quarts per 

 acre, so that if the wheat should be weakened through the changeable 

 winter and spring of the Lake district the timothy would not crowd 

 it out. In the spring of 1879 two quarts of timothy and four quarts 

 of clover seed (one part alsike and two of medium red clover) per acre 

 were broadcasted by hand. 



