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of hay both where the seed was drilled and where it was 

 broadcasted. 



At the same experiment station the effect of different 

 methods of preparing the seed bed was also tested, with 

 the results shown in the following table : 



TABLE SHOWING YIELDS OF TIMOTHY WITH DIFFERENT DEPTHS 

 OF PLOWING. UTAH EXPERIMENT STATION 



In this series of experiments the yields are in inverse 

 relation to the depth of plowing. 



119. Fertilizers for timothy. Timothy, as ordinarily 

 grown in the corn-oats-wheat-clover-timothy rotation, 

 usually secures only the residues of the fertilizers that are 

 applied to the cereal crops. Where timothy meadows are 

 allowed to stand three years or more, the yield can be main- 

 tained by top-dressings of fertilizer, especially barnyard 

 manure. The experiments that have been conducted at 

 a number of experiment stations have uniformly shown 

 markedly increased yields from the use either of barnyard 

 manure or of commercial nitrogenous fertilizers. In most 

 cases, complete fertilizers have also given good results, but 

 the return from phosphorus and potash is rarely so strik- 

 ing as that from nitrogenous fertilizers. 



