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A NEW TYPE OF BED CLOVEE. 



In Ontario, however, the Orel clover and a somewhat similar form 

 from Ufa gave the heaviest yields. The data for this station are so 

 complete that they are given in full in the following table. A num- 

 ber of varieties were here included that were not used in experiments 

 in the States previously described. The data for these are also 

 included. The experiment was made on small plats, from which the 

 acre yields have been computed. (See PI. Ill, fig. 2.). 



Table XIII. — Yield and other data for clover grown at Gudph, Ontario, in 1905. 



Here, again, as was the case in the Northwest, the hairless Orel 

 clover was the latest variety in maturing, and in yield it was surpassed 

 only by the strain from Ufa. The Michigan seed gave the lowest 

 jieid of all, 2,240 pounds, while the New York seed gave the highest 

 of the American strains of known origin, 3,640 pounds. 



CloA^er No. 16 yielded 2,120 pounds more than the poorest and 720 

 pounds more than the best domestic strain, and it produced 1,600 

 pounds more than the average of all plats. 



The same characters and qualities previously noted in this variety 

 were found constant in this experiment. 



The record of mean temperatures and precipitation at Guelph for 

 the months of the growing season of 1905 up to and including the 

 time of harvesting the hay crop, in comparison with the normals for 

 the same months at Orel, follows: 



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