194 AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. 



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. 



In case of the land south of the roadway, leguminous 

 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 Ijefore. 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, w^ith 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 (Pkleion jyratense). 



Two buslicls red top {Agrostis vulgaris). 



Two bushels Kentucky blue-grass {Poa ^iratensis) , 



Two bushels meadow fescue {Fcstiica ]iraiensis). 



Seven pounds sweet-scented vernal grass (Anthuxa)iihum 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 : — 



Twenty pounds of soft brome grass {Brornus mollis). 



Twelve pounds herds grass (Phletim jyTatense) . 



Nine jDounds red fescue {Festuca rubra) . 



Eight jiounds fowl meadow grass (Poa scrotina). 



Seven pounds Rhode Island bent (Agrostis alba). 



Six pounds orchard grass (Dactylis glomerata). 



Five jjounds crested dog-tail (^Cynosurus cristatus). 



Four pounds meadow soft grass (IIolcus lanatus). 



Two pounds sweet-scented vernal grass (A?ithoxanihinn odoratum). 



From four to five pounds of alsike clover per acre were 

 added by broadcast seeding early in the succeeding spring 

 (1889). 



The seed came up well, and suffered but here and there in 

 wet spots during the first winter. Barren spots were 

 reseeded. 



