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of alfalfa, a piece of tall oat grass, one of orchard grass, one of perennial 

 rye grass, one of alsike clover, one of mammoth clover, one of red clover, 

 and one containing a mixture of red clover, mammoth clover, alsike clover, 

 alfalfa, perennial rye grass, tall oat grass, orchard grass and Timothy. A 

 piece in each case, about twenty feet square, had a liberal dressing after 

 seeding of fairly well rotted barn-yard manure. 



The spring, soon after seeding, was wet and the seeds have all started 

 nicely ; some of the tall oat grass was eighteen inches high when the place 

 was examined. The man in charge of the work moved away, and hence did 

 not sow the superphosphate according to the plan. 



OSCODA OR AU SABLE. 



In October of last year the notes regarding the grass plats may well be 

 summarized by saying "plants thin, scattering and small." In April about 

 twenty feet square on each plat was well top-dressed with fine manure, and 

 near a stake put in the center of all plats of clovers, spurry, alfalfa and 

 sweet clover, there was sown about two quarts of superphosphate to a rod. 

 On July 5, 1889, I took notes and now report the following: 



The barn-yard manure has helped everything on which it was applied. 



Spurry, self-sown last fall, is thick enough on half of the ground ; eight 

 inches high ; superphosphate seems to help it. 



Eed clover sown in the spring of 1888 ; a few patches are fair ; the rest of 

 the ground is well covered with sorrel. 



Meadow fescue sown in the spring of 1888 is very thin, but quite evenly 

 scattered ; two and a half feet high. 



Sweet clover sown in the spring of 1888 ; there is a little at the south end ; 

 it is of no account. 



Timothy sown in the spring of 1888 is very thin, hardly as good as meadow 

 fescue. 



Eed clover and mammoth clover sown this spring is coming up well. 



Alf af a is very thin and a foot high ; the manure and the superphosphate 

 appear to have helped it about the same degree. 



Alsike clover sown in the spring of 1888 is now patchy, small, spreading 

 and in flower. 



Meadow foxtail sown in the spring of 1888; there is but a very little and 

 that is about two and a half feet high. 



Mammoth clover is as promising as anything. 



June grass sown last spring and again this spring makes a very poor 

 showing. 



Italian rye grass and perennial rye grass sown in spring of 1888 are much 

 alike ; thin, a foot high. 



Clover seeded this spring is helped by superphosphate as well as by 

 manure. 



Trees were planted on about an acre of new land this spring. 



The land was plowed for the first time and then harrowed. The small 

 groves and scattering trees of jack pine were left standing. The trees were 

 in rows east and west, four feet apart. They have been hoed and will be 

 hoed again and again. They were too small, being about six inches high. 

 The species consisted of white pine, Norway pine, Norway spruce, box elder, 

 locust and some seeds of pitch pine, pinus rigida. 



