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plied in early spring. Each year all three systems of manur- 

 ing are represented. Our average crops under this system 

 have been heavy, having amounted, as has already been 

 stated, to 6,600 pounds per acre. 



Reseeding Permanent Mowings. 

 That it pays occasionally to reseed permanent mowings is 

 made very evident by the results obtained in Amherst in the 

 season of 1903. A portion of each of two plots in the station 

 mowings was plowed and reseeded in the summer of 1902, 

 as already described. One of these plots was the one top- 

 dressed in 1903 with wood ashes. The yield on the portion 

 not reseeded was at the rate of 6,243 pounds per acre ; on 

 the reseeded portion the yield was at the rate of 8,546 

 pounds. On the plot manured with barnyard manure the 

 yield on the portion not reseeded was at the rate of 5,642 

 pounds per acre ; on the reseeded portion it was at the rate 

 of 10,002 pounds per acre. The manure used on the re- 

 seeded portion of this plot was harrowed in at the time 

 the seed was sown ; the balance of the plot was top-dressed 

 late in the fall, as usual. 



Top-dressing for Rowen. 

 Experiments extending over several years in Amherst 

 indicate a probable profit from the application of a moderate 

 top-dressing of nitrate of soda immediately after the removal 

 of the first crop. This should of course be made only on 

 mowings where the product is almost exclusively grasses. 

 Top-dressing with nitrate of soda for clover would be a mis- 

 take, as this, as already stated, should get its nitrogen from 

 the air. The quantity of nitrate likely to prove useful will 

 usually vary between about 150 and 200 pounds per acre. 



