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Common Red Clover, Emmer, and Hungarian Grass : — 5.9 tons ; {5) 

 Early Amber Sugar Cane, Common Red Clover, and Emmer : — 5.7 

 tons; and (6) Emmer, Hungarian Grass, and Spring Rye: — 5.2 tons 

 per acre. From a study of the results under this heading, it will be 

 seen that a mixture of annual crops is likely to give a more satisfactory 

 pasture during the same year it is sown than any of the crops when 

 sown by themselves. 



Grasses and Clovers. 



Of all the farm crops grown in Ontario, we believe there are none 

 so important as the grasses and clovers used for hay and for pasture. 

 Nearly six million acres of Ontario land are devoted annually to the 

 production of hay and pasture ; hence, the great importance of the 

 farmers in this Province giving close attention to the different varieties 

 of grasses and clovers for growing singly and in various combinations 

 for the production of either hay or pasture. 



Varieties of Grasses for the Production of Hay. Fifteen 

 varieties of grasses, including some of our best native as well as some 

 of the most noted European kinds, have been carefully tested in the 

 Experimental department in each of seven different years. The grasses 

 have usually been sown in the spring of the year with a light seeding 

 of grain, as, for instance, one bushel of barley or a bushel and a peck 

 of oats per acre. In the following and succeeding years, careful 

 lecords have been made regarding the height of the different crops, the 

 date at which they reached the proper condition to cut for hay, and the 

 yield per. acre of each cutting in each season. The following table gives 

 the common and scientific names of the different varieties, ihe 

 average date and height of the first cutting, and the total annual yield 

 of hay per acre of each of fifteen varieties, these results being obtained 

 from seven different years and from three separate seedings : 



Common name. 



1 . Western Rye 



2. Lyme Grass 



3. Fringed Brome 



4 . Timothy 



5. Bearded Wheat .. 



6. Canadian^yme .. 



7. Tall Oat 



8. Orchard 



■9. Meadow Fescue .. 



10. AwnlessBrome 



11. Rhode Island Bent 



12. Red Top 



13. Kentucky Blue... 



14. Meadow Foxtail .. 



15. Perennial Rye — 



Scientific name. 



Agropyron tenerum 



Elymus Yirginicus 



Bromus ciliatus 



Phleum pratense 



Agropyron caninum 



Elymus canadensis 



Arrhenatberum avenaceum 



Dactylis glomerata 



Festuca pratensis 



Bromus inermis 



Agrostis canina 



Agrostis vulgaris 



Poa pratensis 



Alopecurus pratensis 



Lolium perenne 



Total an- 

 nual yield 

 of hay per 

 acre, aver- 

 age 7 years. 



Tons. 

 4.36 

 4.31 

 3.80 

 3.47 

 3.27 

 3.25 



76 

 55 

 23 

 18 

 97 

 79 

 58 

 55 

 25 



