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Figure 7. — Second growth of sericea. The new growth has come from the 



stubble. 



year and then be surprised that the stand disappeared. No 

 other result should have been expected. 



The date of the last cutting may also be of some importance, 

 since reserve food is stored mainly by the growth present at the 

 end of the season. In a trial at Arlington Experiment Farm it 

 was shown that cutting about the middle of September damaged 

 the stand severely (fig. 8). The taking of a seed crop has no 

 effect on the stand as by the time seed is ripe the reserve food has 

 already traveled down to the roots. 



