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(sown with perennial rye grass 16 lbs. and red clover 12 lbs.) is con- 

 trasted with an adjoining old pasture (over 100 years down). 



Table VIII. To slioiv seeds mixtures used and the contribution to the 

 herbage of the several species on fields of dijfereyit ages below 300'. 



* Figures = percentage frequency. f Figures = percentage productiveness, 



t Including some Poa pratensis. 



The rapidity with which Poa spp. and Trifolium repens have come 

 in although not included in the seeds mixture is probably to some 

 extent accounted for by the liberal dressing of basic slag (6 cwt. to 

 the acre) apphed to the young seeds after the covering crop (barley) 

 was harvested — which produced a great development of red clover 

 in the first year's hay and again in the aftermath. The red clover, 



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