170 Cambridge University Experiments. 



June, 1904. 



" Set of seven turfs from Abbotsley, Hunts, showing 

 the pastures produced in the fourth season by various 

 mixtures of seeds sown in 1900, viz. : — 1, mixture of rye- 

 grass and clovers, costing 14s. 6d. per acre ; 2, mixture 

 of perennial ryegrass and the chief pasture grasses and 

 clovers, costing 28s. per acre ; 3, a mixture of the chief 

 pasture grasses and clovers, without perennial ryegrass, 

 costing 30s. 6d. per acre; 4, one of Elliot's special 

 mixtures*, costing 39s. 6d. per acre. All the above 

 manured with 10 cwt. basic slag per acre in autumn 

 1900. No. 4 represents much the best of the pastures." 



No. 4 mixture was that used by Mr. Elliot in 1895 for 

 laying down 25 acres poor land, and now in the fourth 

 season. The turf from this mixture now exhibited is 

 labelled as follows : — 



" Much the best of the pastures, a close even sward, 

 closely grazed by stock." 



June, 1905. 



In June, 1905, the Cambridge University (Department 

 of Agriculture) again exhibited a series of turves from 

 their Experimental Pastures at Abbotsley, then in their 

 fifth year ; and the turf from Mr. Elliot's 1895 mixture * 

 was thus described by the Department : — 



" The best of the pastures ; surface evenly covered ; 

 herbage much liked by stock, and always closely grazed." 



" In placing the Abbotsley plots in order of merit, we 

 may say, ' No. VIII. (Mr. E. H. Elliot's 1895 Mixture *) 

 first, the others nowhere' " — Professor Middleton on the 

 " Formation of Permanent Pastures," in the Journal of 

 the Board of Agriculture for November, 1905. 



* The Inner Kaimrig Mixture of 1895. Vide p. 31. 

 NoTB. — It will be observed that the Inner Kaimrig Mixture of 1895, 

 designed for poor light Oheviot-hill land, has proved the best of all the 

 mixtures sown on the poor stiff clay soil at Abbotsley, Hunts., thus 

 shewing the adaptability of the Clifton Park Mixtures to all classes of 

 soils. 



