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A NEW TYPE OF RED CLOVER. 



are not by any means common to all of the Russian strains with 

 which experiments have been made. Another strain not used in 

 the States under discussion, obtained from Ufa, in the cold, almost 

 snowless steppe region of eastern Russia, resembles No. 16 very 

 strikingly. Nos. 15 and 17 resemble the foregoing in some of their 

 qualities, but like No. 18, which in these respects is practically 

 identical with the American strains, they are readily distinguishable 

 in the field. 



The lowest yield was given by the seed from Tennessee. The 

 strains that produced less than 20,000 pounds of green matter are 

 the Tennessee, Michigan, Missouri, and commercial sample No. 9. 

 The largest yield produced by seed from domestic sources was 

 22,000 pounds in the case of No. 3 from northern Indiana. 



YIELDS OF FIELD-CURED HAY. 



Table X shows the yield to the acre and other data regarding 

 Field W, which was devoted to determining the comparative pro- 

 duction of field-cured hay. 



Table X. — Yields of clover on Field W, used in determining the production of Jield-cured 



hay, St. Anthony Park, Minn., 1905. 



No. 



1 



2 



3 



4 



5 



6 



7 



8 



9 



10 



11 



12 



13 



14 



15 



16 



17 

 18 

 19 

 20 

 21 



Source. 



Commercial seed (Western Bulked) June 13 . 



Western Ohio do... 



Northern Indiana June 15 . 



Southern Indiana June 14 . 



Illinois June 11 . 



Missouri do. . . 



Iowa June 13 . 



Commercial seed (not inoculated) June 11 . 



Commercial seed (inoculated) June 12. 



Date of 



first 

 bloom. 



Michigan. 



Nebraska 



Eastern Ohio. 



Kentucky 



Tennessee 



Kief, Russia. . 

 Orel, Russia. . 



Mogileff , Russia . . 

 Courland, Russia. 



Wisconsin 



Oregon 



Pennsylvania 



Total . 



June 10 . 

 June 15 . 

 June 12 . 

 June 11 . 

 ...do... 

 June 13. 

 June IG . 



June 15 . 

 June 13 . 

 June 12 . 

 June 13 . 

 June 10 . 



Date of full 

 bloom. 



June 28 



June 27 



June 28 



June 27 



June 26 



J une 25 ... . 



June 26 



June 28 



June 29 



June 27 



do 



June 26 



June 27 



June 25 



June 28 



(Few blos- 

 soms.) 



June 30 



June 27 



June 26 



do 



do 



Date 

 when cut. 



Average I Field- 

 height I cured 

 when hay to 

 cut. acre. 



June 30 . 

 June 29. 

 ...do... 

 ...do... 

 June 30. 

 ...do... 

 June 29 . 

 June 30 . 

 ....do... 

 June 29 . 

 ....do... 

 ....do... 

 ....do... 

 ....do... 

 June 30 . 

 ....do... 



....do... 

 ....do... 



June 29. 



June 30 . 



June 29 . 



Inches. 

 30 

 31 

 30 

 30 

 30 

 28 

 28 

 ■ 27 

 28 

 28 

 30 

 30 

 30 

 30 

 29 

 30 



31 

 28 



28 

 27 

 26 



Pounds. 

 4,320 

 4,248 

 4,468 

 4,800 

 4,068 

 4,400 

 4, 120 

 4,420 

 4.394 

 4,109 

 4,308 

 4,800 

 4,120 

 3,640 

 4,020 

 5,320 



5,000 

 3,780 

 3, 760 

 4,460 

 4,480 



91,035 



ORDER IN WHICH THE VARIOUS STRAINS MATURED. 



A variability similar in some respects to that observed in Nebraska 

 may be noted with reference to the length of time required to mature 

 the different strains. On the University farm they reached the 



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