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g-ives the average date of the first cutting for four years, the average 

 height of the first cutting for six years, and the total annual yield of 

 hay per acre for the average of six years. 



Varieties. 



Alsike 



Mammoth Red. 

 Common Red . 



Date of first 

 cutting, aver- 

 age 4 years. 



Height of first 

 cutting, aver- 

 age 6 years. 



July 3 



" 11 



June 27 



Inches. 

 20 

 25 

 22 



Total annual 

 yield of Hay 

 per acre, aver- 

 age 6 years. 



Tons. 

 3.47 

 3.31 

 2.95 



It will be seen that in the average of four years' experiments the 

 Common Red clover was ready to cut on the 27th of June, the Alsike 

 clover on the 3rd of July, and the Mammoth Red clover on the nth of 

 July. According to this report, the first cutting of the Mammoth Red 

 clover was exactly two weeks later than that of the Common Red 

 variety. The Alsike clover, although producing the shortest plants in 

 the first cutting, gave the largest average yield of hay per acre. It 

 furnishes a close mat of growth. The Mammoth Red clover produces 

 a large crop at the first cutting, but neither this variety nor the Alsike 

 clover furnishes much of a second growth. In 1904 both the Alsike 

 and the Mammoth Red varieties gave exceptionally high yields of hay 

 per acre. 



Varieties of Clover for the Production of Pasture An ex- 

 periment has been conducted for three years by cutting each of eight 

 varieties of clover and similar crops at five different times during the 

 growing season, in order to ascertain the amount of pasture crop pro- 

 duced by each variety throughout the summer. The first cutting was 

 made as soon as the earliest varieties had made suflScient growth to 

 furnish a good pasture. Each of the other five cuttings were made at 

 such times as the most vigorous growing varieties had produced suf- 

 ficient growth for pasture purposes. As each cutting was macTe, the 

 crop was weighed immediately in order to ascertain the exact yield of 

 pasture crop produced by each variety. The following table gives the 

 average results for three years of each of the six cuttings per annum 



