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Pasture Problems 



The chief results obtained when complete mixtures were used on 

 fields also receiving farmyard and phosphatic manures are set out in 

 Table VI. 



Some further observations may be briefly stated as follows : 



Festuca duriuscula (commercial seed). 3 lbs. to the acre gave 

 nothing in the first year's hay. 



Dactylis glomerata. 2 lbs. to the acre gave 4% in first year's hay. 

 8 lbs. to the acre gave 12 % in first year's hay. 



Arrhenatherum avenaceum. 2 lbs. to the acre gave 2 % in first 

 year's hay. 



Poa pratensis. 2 lbs. to the acre gave 2 % in first year's hay. 



Poteriuni Sanguisorha-. 6 lbs. to the acre completely covered the 

 ground on a dry bank where everything else had failed, in the first 

 year's hay crop. 



These results are discussed in the summary at the end of the section. 



C. Fields below 300' on Well-drained Alluvia or Gravel. 



Some fifteen fields have been investigated upon this type. On 

 the best soils, when farmyard and phosphatic manures are freely applied, 

 a good indigenous herbage may be rapidly induced. This is well shown 

 by the figures given in Table VII; where a field in its second year 



Table VII. To contrast the herbage on a field in its second year (one 

 hay crop and one year pasture) with an adjoining permanent pasture 

 at 100' above sea level on a rich soil. 



The figures = percentage frequency. 

 * Have come in indigenously. 



