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AGRICULTURAL AND MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 



Experiments in the Growth of Red Clover. 



The very wet character of the season of 1903 in many in- 

 stances prevented clover and other seeds from ripening properly, 

 and farmers may accordingly have some difficulty in obtaining 

 clover seed of good germinating power. Farmers purchasing 

 such seed, particularly of foreign origin, should moreover be 

 careful to sec that it is free from dodder seeds, which may easily 

 escape detection unless a close examination be made. It may 

 therefore prove useful to summarise some recent experiments 

 regarding the growth of clover from seed of varying origin. 



The German Agricultural Society have recently published^ 

 an account of some experiments conducted in various parts of 

 that country with red clover seed of different nationality 

 during 1900-2.* They were carried out under the direction 

 of a committee at the agricultural stations of Hohenheim, 

 Poppelsdorf (Bonn), Weihenstephan, Gottingen, Tharandt, 

 Halle, Breslau, and Konigsberg, the different conditions of 

 Germany being thus represented. A total of 32 samples was . 

 used from the following 15 regions, viz.: — Silesia, Prussia,. 

 Palatinate (Germany) ; Baltic Provinces, Poland, Southern 

 Russia (Russia) ; Galicia, Styria, Bohemia (Austria), Italy,.. 

 Northern France, Southern France, Canada, North-East and; 

 North-West United States. 



The weight of green produce was considered unsatisfactory 

 as a test, owing to the varying degrees of moisture, &c. ; 

 and the comparison as finally made deals with the weight of 

 dry matter yielded on the different plots. 



* Arbeiten der Deatschen Landwirtschafts-Gesellschaft, No. %^.~Anbat t z'erstiche 

 mit Rotklee verschiedener Herktmjt: Berlin: P. Pcirey, 1903. 



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