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N. H. AGR. EXPERIMENT STATION 



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was about 90 per cent, timothy and red top, was cut July 15 and stored the 

 17th. The following tabulation indicates the kind and amount of materials 

 applied and the yield of hay per acre: 



The sulphate of ammonia was applied April 22; the other material May 



6, at such rates as to give each plot an application of 30 lbs. of nitrogen 



per acre. 



Pasture Improvement. 



In order to supplement the results obtained in some previous pasture 

 imjM'ovement experiments an acre of land in the old reservoir pasture was 

 cleared of brush, briars and juniper. This was divided into eight sections 

 50 X 110 feet each. The sections were treated as follows: 



1. Nitrate of Soda 160 lbs. per acre. 



2. Nitrate of Lime 184 lbs. per acre. 



3. Ground Limestone 4000 lbs. per acre. 



4. Check No treatment. 



5. Grass seed alone 16 lbs. per acre. 



6. Grass seed and Nitrate of Soda as above. 



7. Grass seed and Nitrate of Lime as above. 



8. Grass seed and Ground Limestone as above. 

 The Grass seed mixture was made up of —  



15 lbs. Timothy. 



15 lbs. Ky. Blue Grass. 



10 lbs. Red Top. 



10 lbs. Red Clover. 



The grass seed was sown April 15 and the fertilizer applied May 1. 



The effect of the nitrogen fertilizers could be noted throughout the season, 

 while that of the limestone and gra.ss seed, as was to be expected the first 

 season, could not. It is planned to repeat the applications of fertilizer on 

 the same sections again next season f6r further observation. 



Foreign Clovers. 



Duplicate plots of Bohemian, Chilean, German, Hungarian and Italian 

 red clovers supplied by the Bureau of Plant Industry, Washington, D. C, 

 were sown June 1st. Two local red clovers under the names of Krop-King 

 and Eureka, and presumably native, were planted at the same time with 

 the idea of observing differences between native and imported clovers in 

 growth and adaptation to local climatic conditions. A reasonably good stand 

 on all the plots has been obtained, reports Mr. Taylor, with the possible 

 exception of the Hungarian, and very little consistent difference in develop- 



