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In another field the same experiment was performed with timothy, the 

 plots in this case being each one by six rods in size. The ''pasture" plot 

 In this case was cut eight times and yielded as follows: — 







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On June 24 the corresponding plot left for meadow was cut for hay, the 

 product being 415 pounds when green and 172 pounds when cured for hay. 



Combining the results of the above three trials we have, from the fre- 

 quent clippings in imitation of pasture, 95 pounds of hay, and from the 

 same area at a single cutting 384 pounds, or a yield four times as great. 

 Short grass is known to be more nutritious than fodder which is more 

 mature. To determine how much this fact might offset the greater gain 

 in weight from the single cuttings a sample of hay from the single cutting 



