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The, Bank Field Experimtnt. 



Bank Field Experiment. — The Bank j&eld consists of 

 27 acres, rather more than half of which is poor, stony, 

 and exposed, and in some parts very steep land. The 

 remainder consists of fair medium soil for that part of 

 the country. For the last nineteen years 24 acres of the 

 field have never been -.manured, excepting with the 

 artificials used with the turnips. The remaining 3 acres 

 have once — some years ago — had some farmyard manure, 

 and the seed mixture used in 1900 was : — 



Cocksfoot . - - 

 Tall Fescue - 

 Tall Oat-like Grass - 

 Eough - stalked Mea.dow 

 Grass - - - 



Late-flowering Red Clover 



Ibe. 

 14 



7 



lbs. 

 2 

 1 

 1 

 8 

 3 

 3 



White Clover 

 Alsike Clover 

 Yarrow 

 Burnet 



1 Kidney Vetch 



2 Chicory 

 Total, 49 lbs. per acre. 



This mixture,* I think, is an improvement on former 

 mixtures, as, at about the same cost, there is supplied 

 a larger quantity of the most hardy, drought-resisting, 

 early, and productive grasses. It is a safe mixture, 

 because the seeds of the large grasses are much less liable 

 to fail thah those of the smaller ones, and it is calculated 

 to leave a greater quantity of vegetable matter for the 



* As an alternative mixtuie to that sown on the Bank field in 1900, 1 

 approve of the following mixture suggested by Mr. Hunter, as suitable 

 for laying down good soils at a moderate elevation on my system, and I 

 have myself used it successfully on such soil on another part of this 

 estate. This mixture contains, in addition to the kinds used in the 

 Bank field. Meadow Fescue, Meadow Foxtail, and Timothy grasses, aU 

 valuable on good low-lying moist and rich soils : — 



Total, 50 lbs. per acre. 



