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yield are Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota, Kansas, 

 Ohio. 



In Europe some surplus seed is grown in Germany and 

 in Austria. Werner gives the German yield at 500 to 

 800 kg. to the hectare. Michalowski at Hohenheim from 

 fall sowings obtained 244 kg. the first year and 554 kg. 

 the second year to the hectare. From a spring sowing the 

 seed yield the second year was 567 kg. the hectare. 



The date of harvesting influences the weight of seed 

 obtained. Thus Dorph-Petersen in Denmark harvested 

 from plots at intervals of 3 days, the yields being at the 

 rate respectively of 303, 346, 360 and 414 kg. the hectare. 



127. Life history. If a seedling of timothy is care- 

 fully examined, a small bud, the beginning of a. corm or 

 bulb, will be found in the axil at the base of each of the 

 leaves. The basal internodes are very short until the one 

 is reached which becomes the primary corm. The smaller 

 axillary corms below develop later and give the false 

 appearance of having arisen from the base of the pri- 

 mary bulb. A single seedling may have during the 

 first year 8 to 18 corms and shoots, each with a more or 

 less well-developed corm, from the base of which roots are 

 produced. Under field conditions all of these shoots do 

 not survive, as crowding and other conditions prevent 

 the weaker ones from securing enough nourishment. 

 Where the plants are isolated, most of the shoots will 

 head at approximately the same height, but if the plants 

 are crowded and the nourishment is insufficient, the weaker 

 shoots head when much smaller than the others. A 

 timothy shoot heads but once, and then dies, including 

 the corm. Before the latter dies, however, a new lateral 

 bulb is usually developed from its base, or if the corm is 

 double from the base of each joint. Normally the shoot 



