AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 



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EXPERIMENTS WITH FORAGE PLANTS. 



In the spring of 1888, about seventy varieties of grasses and 

 other forage plants were sown in plots. Some of these failed to 

 grow ; others grew the first season and winter killed, while a 

 number proved to be duplicates. Those that grew more or less 

 satisfactorily are below considered. Those that seem promising 

 will be further tested in larger plots under the most favorable 

 conditions of soil and moisture and the yield per acre recorded. 





GRASSES. 





1. 



Brown Bent, 



Agrostis canina 



2. 



Red Top, - - . - 



" vulgaris 



3. 



Creeping Bent, - - - 



" stolonifera 



4. 



Meadow Fescue, 



Festuca pratensis 



5. 



Tall - - - - 



"■ elatior 



6. 



Sheep " 



" ovina 



7. 



Hard 



"■ dunuscula 



8. 



Wood Meadow, . _ _ 



Poa nemoralis 



9. 



Kentucky Blue, - 



" pratensis 



10. 



Rough-stalked Meadow, 



" trivialis 



11. 



Euglish Blue, - - . 



" compressa 



12. 



Fowl Meadow, 



•' serotina 



13. 



Rescue Grass, - - - 



Bromus unioloides 



14. 



Meadow Brome, 



" p)ratensis 



15. 



Soft Chess, 



- " mollis 



16. 



Slender Foxtail, 



- Alopecuris agrostis 



17. 



Rye Grass, . . _ _ 



- Lolium perenne 



18. 



Tall Oat-grass, - - - 



Arrhenatherum avenaceum 



19. 



Sweet Vernal, - - - - 



Anthoxanthum odoratum 



20. 



Timothy, . . . . 



Phleum pratense 



21. 



Velvet Grass, - - - - 



Holcus lanatus 



22. 



Orchard " - - 



- Dactylis glomerata 



23. 



Reed Canary, - - - . 



Phalaris arundinacea 



24. 



Crested Dogstail, 



CLOVER. 



Cynosurus cristatus 



25. 



Alsike, - - - . 



Trifolium hybridum 



26. 



Red, 



" pratense 



27. 



White, . . . - 



" repens 



28. 



Crimson, . - - . 



" incarnatum 



