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EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



meadow, sheep fescue, various-leaved fescue, line-leaved fescue, tall fescue^ and 

 long-leaved fescue, and these probably possess permanency in the order named. 

 Some of these in the list last mentioned have even greater power to endure than 

 those in the list first mentioned. 



•'The varieties which in our experience have not shown mtich permanence are Ital- 

 ian rye, sweet vernal, crested dogstuil, tall oat, perennial rye, creeping bent, and 

 redtop, and they have been found wanting in permanency in tlie order named. 



"In the tests conducted at this farm the clovers have been found durable in the lol- 

 lowing order, viz : Lucerne, alsike clover, yellow clover, white clover, and common 

 red clover. Yellow clover, like white clover, does not seem able to hold its ground 

 at the first in dense mixed grasses which are cut for hay, but as time goes on, and 

 some of the grasses fail, the yellow clover ajipears to increase. When white clover 

 is sown in mixtures of permanent grasses, and these are mowed for some years at the 

 first rather than pastured, the clover seems to fail because of the smothering influ- 

 ence exerted by the stronger grasses; but where- the grasses are pastured from the 

 first it seems to have power to increase with the increasing age of the pastures. . . . 



'' Lathyrus si/hcstris . . . does not seem to grow quickly enough to give it a foremost 

 place among fodder plants in this country." 



Directions for preparinj^ the soil and for selecting mixtures for i^erina- 

 nent pastures are given. Autumn sowing of grasses was found less 

 suitable than spring sowing. 



Culture of Lathyrus sylvestris, A. von Solemachbr {Ztschr. 

 lawlw. Ver. Rlieinpreussen, .11 {1891), No. o<J, pp. 299, 300). — After 10 

 years' experience with this plant the author concludes that by the 

 choice of land comxjaratively free from weed seed and by crowding the 

 l)lants, placing them 4 to 6 in. apart in rows 8 to 10 in. apart, hoeing, 

 so generally recommended for this crop, cau be dispensed with. 



Analyses of legumes, F. T. Shutt [Canada Exptl. Farms Upt. 1S93, 

 pp. 116,117). — The following analyses are given, together with botanical 

 notes on the materials analyzed : 



Anal y sex of legumes. 



^^ Lathyrus sylvestris produced a thick mass of leafy stems nearly 4 

 ft. in height. . . . Our own experience in feeding it is as yet extremely 

 limited. It appears that at first the cattle will not evince a fondness 

 for it." Lathyrus venosus is described as a "free- growing, native, per- 

 ennial pea . . . found on the Western plains, from which the sample 



