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TABLE SHOWING EFFECT OF DIFFERENT METHODS OF SOIL 

 PREPARATION ON YIELDS OF TIMOTHY. UTAH EXP. STATION 



114. Heavy seeds or light seeds. Heavy seeds and 

 light seeds separated by means of a brine solution were 

 compared at the Utah Experiment Station in 1893. The 

 first season crop from the heavy seed was larger by 28 

 per cent, but in the second season the two were alike. 



Clark at the New York (Geneva) Experiment Station 

 separated timothy seed by using salt solutions of differ- 

 ent specific gravities from 1 to 1.26. The percentage 

 of germination was smallest in the lightest seeds and great- 

 est in the heavy seeds. 



Hunt mentions a test at the Cornell Experiment Station 

 in which three sizes of timothy seed, containing respectively 

 600,000, 1,200,000 and 2,000,000 seeds to the pound were 

 grown in similar plots. The result of a two years' trial 

 was slightly in favor of the large seeds, both when the same 

 number and the same weight per acre were planted. 



115. Rate of seeding. The usual rate of seeding 

 timothy is 12 to 15 pounds to the acre if seeded alone, and 

 about 9 pounds if red clover is to be added. Few rate of 

 seeding experiments have been reported. Hunt at the 

 Cornell Experiment Station tested various rates at from 

 5 to 35 pounds, and concluded that 15 pounds is a desirable 

 rate. 



