210 AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. 



repeatedly ploughed and harrowed, until it showed the 

 desirable mechanical condition required for a successful 

 cultivation of summer grain crops. 



Barley and oats were chosen as the first crops in case of 

 the meadow north of the new roadway. Both were seeded 

 in drills, with rows two feet apart, to permit a thorough 

 destruction of an objectionable foul growth by a frequent 

 use of the cultivator and hoe. 



As soon as these crops were harvested, one ton of wood 

 ashes per acre was ploughed in, to assist in the disintegration 

 of the excess of organic peaty matter, and to serve as a gen- 

 eral fertilizer. Ploughing once more and smoothing the 

 surface by means of a brush harrow, the entire area was 

 seeded down into grass to serve as meadow. The latter was 

 subsequently cut into two, by a road built for communication 

 to more remote fields. This arrangement caused a division 

 into a northern and southern meadow. 



1888. — In case of the land south of the roadway, legumi- 

 nous plants, as soja bean, Southern cow-pea and serradella, 

 served as first crop. The system of drainage and of seeding 

 down remained the same as before. The meadow north of 

 the road covers an area of somewhat more than six acres, 

 and that south of the road is about three acres in size. The 

 meadow north of the road was sown for the first time in the 

 fall of 1887, with grass, and the one south of the roadway 

 in the fall of 1888." 



The more elevated portions of both were seeded down 

 with the following mixture of grass seeds, at the rate of 

 from two to two and one-half bushels per acre : — 



Two bushels herds grass (Phleum pratense) . 



Two bushels red top (Agrostis vulgaris) . 



Two bushels Kentucky blue-grass (Poa pratensis). 



Two bushels meadow fescue (Festuca pratensis) . 



Seven pounds sweet-scented vernal grass (Anthoxanlhum odoratum) . 



Early in the succeeding spring a mixture of equal weights 

 of medium red clover and alsike clover was added broadcast, 

 at the rate of from five to six pounds per acre. 



The lower and still more wet portion of the meadow was 

 seeded down with the following mixture of grass seeds : — 



