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area sown to the timothy mixture in two cuts amounted 

 during 1904 to 4 tons per acre. The average yield on the 

 area sown to the fescue mixture is a very little greater than 

 that amount. The first of the two mixtures of seed under 

 comparison seems certain to prove most satisfactory where 

 mowings are frequently broken up, hut for more permanent 

 mowings the second seems certain to prove superior on all 

 the stronger and more retentive soils. A mixture ada})ted 

 for permanent mowings on light soils was given in the first 

 pa})er. 



Other mixtures which may be valuable under the condi- 

 tions indicated are the following : — 



For two or three years" mowings on uiediuni soils, per :icre : — 



For permanent mowings on medium soils, per acre : — 



Orchard grass, 

 Italian rye grass. 

 Yellow oat grass, 

 Meadow fescue. 

 Tall fescue, . 

 Red clover, . 

 Alsike clover. 



Pounds. 



8 

 3 

 i 

 5 

 5 

 5 

 4 



Both of these seed mixtures will produce crops which 

 should be harvested relatively early ; and, unless the farmer 

 is prepared to give them attention when the crop is in the 

 best condition, he will do better to select a mixture made 

 up chiefly of timothy and redto}). 



The various methods of sowing grass seeds, the time of 

 sowing and the use of manures and fertilizers in preparation 

 for the hay crop were quite fully discussed in the first paper. ^ 



" Agriculture of Massachusetts," WOl. p. o57. 



