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soils. The mixture of seeds wliich we usually use is as 

 follows : — 



Pounds. 



Timothy, 18 



Red-top, ......... 8 



Mammoth clover, ........ 5 



Alsike clover, ........ 4 



If a more permanent mowing is desired, it is believed to 

 be best to include other species, for under most conditions 

 timothy does not prove permanent. It gradually gives 

 place to species which are less valuable for hay, — in the 

 eastern part of the State and on the lighter soil in many 

 cases to sweet vernal, farther inland and on the stronger 

 soils to Kentucky blue-grass. The last, although a splendid 

 pasture grass, produces too little top to prove altogether 

 satisfactory in mowings. There is, it is true, no variety of 

 hay Avhich sells so readily in most sections as timothy ; but 

 for the reasons stated it seems best to reduce the quantity 

 of timothy, and to introduce species which are more persist- 

 ent in all cases where the mowing is to be permanent. 

 Among such species the fescues promise to prove the most 

 valuable ; and a mixture of seeds in which I have consider- 

 able confidence for permanent mowings is as follows : — 



Pounds. 



Timothy, 6 



Red-top, ......... 8 



Red clover, . . 5 



Alsike clover, . . . ... . , .4 



Kentucky blue-grass, . . ' . . . . .4 



Meadow fescue, ........ 6 



Tall fescue, ......... 4 



The two mixtures of seeds which have been given were 

 sown on the experiment station grounds in Amherst in the 

 summer of 1902, under conditions which make comparison 

 of the results for the first year possible. The mixture in- 

 cluding the larger amount of timothy gave a yield in two 

 crops at the rate of about 5 tons to the acre, while the mix- 

 ture includinof the fescues o-ave a vield at the rate of about 

 44 tons per acre. The timothy mixture is in the first year 



