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TENTH ANNUAL REPORT. 



TABLE II. 



SEED TESTED. No. 10. 



Date. 



October 18. 



November 1 . 



December G. 



February 4 



March 10 



Api'il 15. 



' Seed Germ- 

 in test, inatetl, 



50 



20 



(iO 



100 



200 



800 



No. 9. 



Seed Germ- 

 in test, inated. 



No. S. 



Seed 

 in test. 



Germ- 

 inated, 



No. 7. 



Seed I Germ - 

 in test, inated. 



Total , 1,230 



Figure 1 is a photograph of a field adjoining the college 

 farm, and represents the first growth from newly seeded 

 ground. After the daisy matured there was snch a good 

 growth of timothy that the presence of the daisy could not 

 be detected except upon close examination. 



Liming. 



A number of experiments have been carried on to test the 

 value of lime when applied to our soil. 



Experiment 1. On July 9, 1896, we completed the pre- 

 liminary work upon an old meadow. The field had been in 

 grass for an indefinite number of years, and was practically 

 exhausted. It was plowed up and staked off into plots, all 

 of which were prepared alike. The plant food used was com- 

 mercial fertilizer. Three series of plots of two each were 

 used in the experiment, one in each being limed at the rate 

 of one ton per acre, while the other was used as a check. 

 The soil is a clay loam, rather low and not very well drained, — 

 fairly representative of the grass lands in this section of the 

 state. The following data show the results for the past two 

 seasons, in each case on one acre of land. 



