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4. Experiments with Forage Crops (Twenty-seven). 



Field D. 



This field has lieen used for the past three years for the 

 raising of a variety of reputed annual and perennial fodder 

 crops, in the majority of cases new to our section of the 

 country, to study their adaptation to our climate and soil. 

 Some of them have since been raised on a larger scale success- 

 fully and profitably for the support of our dairy stock, as 

 southern cow-pea, serradella, early-maturing soja bean, late- 

 maturing soja liean, summer vetch and oats, summer vetch 

 and barley, and vetch, oats and horse bean. 



The field is 328 feet long and 70 feet wide, covering an 

 area of 22,960 square feet, or .527 acre. The field was 

 ploughed April 30, and May 1 a fertilizer mixture was 

 applied at the rate of 600 pounds of fine-ground bone and 

 200 pounds of muriate of potash per acre. The fertilizer 

 was applied liroadcast and harrowed in. The difterent crops 

 were planted in rows two and one-half feet apart, and were 

 kept free from weeds throughout the season. They were 

 arranged in the field during the past season in the following 

 order, begiunino; at the west end : — 



Prickly comfrey {Symphytum officinalis) . 



Alfalfa (Medicago sativa). 



Kidney vetch {Antliyllis vulneraria) . 



Forest pea or flat pea (Lathyrus sylvestt-is) . 



Crimson clover {Trifolium incarnatum). 



Alsike clover (Trifolium hybridum). 



Medium red clover ( Trifolium medium) . 



Sainfoin {Onobrychis sativa). 



Japanese clover (Lespedeza striata). 



Winter rape {Brassica napiis) . 



Dwarf Essex rape (Brassica napus). 



Serradella {Ornitliopus sativus). 



Vetch ( Vicia sativa) . 



Bokhara clover (Melilotus alba) . 



Yellow lupine (Lupiyius lutens) . 



Blue lupine (Lupinus perennis) . 



White lupine (Lxipinus alba) . 



Southern cow-pea (Dolichos sinensis). 



