1892.] 



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Plat IV. (2.11 acres); Plat V. (.91 acres): The first 

 year's hay consisted nearly entirely of herds grass, which 

 was almost the only variety which had headed out in June. 

 The yields of both plats were harvested together. 



Total Yield per Acre. 



8,130 pounds, June 24. 8,105 pounds, August 31. 



3,720 pounds, or 

 1.8(3 tons. 



1890. — The difte rent plats were prepared in a similar 

 manner for the season of 18i)0 as they had been for the })re- 

 ceding season, 1889. 



Plats I. and II. received a top-dressing of barn-yard 

 manure during the months of October and November ; the 

 former 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 l)efore. 



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. 



