ON SOME UNTRIED EXPERIMENTS 



oping a forage grass to its fullest possibilities of 

 productivity is too patent to require comment. 



That one plant could be made to grow, and to 

 maintain throughout life a rate of growth one 

 hundred times in excess of other individuals of 

 the same species, is a fact that should be stimu- 

 lative to any experimenter who thinks of working 

 with the grasses, and that is certainly of signifi- 

 cance to the cultivator of forage plants. 



I have experimented extensively also, and with 

 interesting if less picturesque results, with the 

 millets, the rye grasses, and orchard grass, as well 

 as with numberless more or less conspicuous 

 varieties. 



My work with the orchard grass, which is only 

 neglected in the past few years, included an inter- 

 esting experiment growing out of the discovery 

 several years ago of a seedling that produced 

 leaves much longer than the ordinary, as well as a 

 large, strong stalk, and a large cluster of blossoms 

 different in form from those of the ordinary 

 orchard grass. 



The plant was so individual that it could be 

 distinguished at a considerable distance by its 

 greater size and anomalous appearance. 



The seeds of this plant were found to follow 

 the variant type of their parent somewhat closely. 



The type has not been entirely fixed but is 



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