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HATCH EXPERIMENT STATION. 



[Jan. 



against the Kentucky blue-grass. With a view to testing 

 these species as regards tliis point, equal areas of the rcseeded 

 portions of plots 1 and 2 have been sown with each of the 

 two mixtures shown below : — 



Fescue Mixture (Pounds 2Jcr Acre). 

 Timothy, 

 Red-top, 

 Red clover, . 

 Alsike clover, 

 Kentucky blue-grass. 

 Meadow fescue, 

 Tall fescue, . 



Timothy Mixture (Potmds j^er Acre). 



Timothy 



Red-top, ....... 



Red clover, ....... 



Alsike clover, ...... 



18 

 8 

 5 

 4 



These mixtures may be for convenience called respectively 

 fescue mixture and timothy mixture. The relative yields in 

 the first year on the two ditierent seed mixtures is shown 

 below : — 



nay 



(Pounds). 



Itowen 



(Pounds). 



Totals 

 (Pounds). 



Plot 1 : — 

 Fescue mixture, 

 Timothy mixture, 



Plot 2: — 

 Fescue mixture, 

 Timothy mixture, 



5,042 

 6,217 



f.,521 

 7,129 



2,<)48 

 3,186 



2,921 

 3,394 



7,690 

 9,403 



9,483 

 10,523 



It will be seen that the timothy mixture has given the 

 larger crops this year on both plots, both at the first and 

 second ('uttings. During the past dozen years many mix- 

 tures of grass seeds have beiMi tried on diflerent parts of the 

 college estate, but none has been found which, everything 

 considered, exce(>ds in vahie a mixture substjintially that 



