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which it resembles in early growth and endurance. The 

 samples of ryegrass were sown on ten parallel plots of 24 square 

 yards each, and the seed used was at the rate of 18 Ibs. to the 

 acre. 



Three Danish samples of timothy were tested, two entered 

 and one bought. At three stations they were sown together 

 with two different strains of alsike, each sample of timothy 

 sown at each station on four plots with each kind of alsike, 

 therefore eight plots of timothy at each station. The pro- 

 portion of timothy and alsike and of other plants was estimated 

 by botanical analysis of the hay from each plot. On two of 

 the stations were further ten parallel plots of timothy by itself. 

 All plots were 24 square yards. When timothy and alsike 

 were sown together 5J Ibs. of each were used per acre ; when 

 timothy was sown alone 9 Ibs. were used. The results from 

 the different stations agree exceedingly well, and the two strains 

 entered yielded very good crops, the best being " Trifolium 

 No. 12 " from the firm of Trifolium, but timothy 1913 from 

 F. D. B. ran it very close. 



Two samples of meadow fescue were entered by the firm of 

 Dsehnfeldt, Odense, and compared with the best strains from 

 the previous series, viz., Lyngby No. 9. The samples were 

 sown at four stations. As meadow fescue is particularly useful 

 on low-lying land, one of the fields selected for this comparison 

 was a meadow and two were low-lying peat land. The samples 

 were sown in mixtures with three different kinds of white clover, 

 four plots with each kind, or twelve plots at each station, each 

 plot of 24 square yards, the quantity sown being at the rate of 

 9 Ibs. of fescue and 4| Ibs. of white clover per acre. Un- 

 fortunately two of the selected fields, the meadow and one on 

 peat land, were found to be unsuitable for the experiment, so 

 that results were obtained from only two stations, showing 

 Lyngby No. 9 was considerably the best on the field at Tystofte, 

 while Deehnfeldt's No. 5 exceeded it by 21 per cent, on the peat 

 land at Herning. 



Four kinds of Danish white clover were tested, together 

 with a sample of Bohemian seed bought from Trifolium. They 

 were sown with meadow fescue, as explained above, at Tystofte 

 and at Herning on peat land. When, at the Comparative 



