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at the rate of fourteen tons per acre, and the latter at the 

 rate of eleven tons. 



Plat III. was treated in April, 1890, as before, with a 

 mixture of six hundred pounds of fine-ground bones and 

 two hundred pounds of muriate of potash. 



Plats IV. and V. were merged into one plat, and received 

 a top-dressing of unleached wood ashes, at the rate of one 

 ton per acre, April 19, 1890. 



Barren spots in this plat, it being the second year after 

 seeding down, were reseeded by the same seed mixture 

 which had been used before. 



The entire meadow received an addition of from two to 

 three pounds of alsike clover seed, broadcast, per acre. 



All plats were cut as far as practicable at the same time. 



Yield of Hay in 1890. 



Total yield of hay, 18,415 pounds. 



Yield jjer acre, 9,591 pounds, or 4.80 tons. 



Total yield of hay, 15,585 pounds. 



Yield per acre, 8,117 pounds, or 4.06 tons 



Total yield of hay, 17,995 pounds. 



Yield per acre, 7,466 pounds, or 3.73 tons. 



