1889.] PUBLIC DOCUMENT — No. 4. 519 



As the cultivation in rows is an exceptional one as far as 

 meadow grasses and clovers are concerned, no attempt has 

 been made to state their yield per acre. The principal aim 

 of the experiment on field <* B" consists, as has been stated 

 above, in securing suitable samples of each crop on trial, for 

 the purpose of ascertaining the influence of stage of growth 

 and of a difi*erent degree of fertility of the soil on their com- 

 position. Sufficient material has been collected of every 

 crop stated above, and the results of a chemical analysis of 

 each will be published from time to time as the work 

 advances. 



The analyses of alfalfa and of alsike clover of the first 

 year's growth (1887) have been already published in the 

 annual report for that year ; also analyses of orchard grass, 

 red-top, meadow fescue and timothy. (See pages 125-132.) 



