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to ripen their seeds ; but, instead, to cut the meadow when the 
food prepared by the plant is still distributed through its tissues, 
and when it can be preserved without loss for the use of the stock. 
The cocksfoot, foxtail, and tall fescue in the Stackyard 
Field were this autumn very much infected with rust ; only a 
little was to be seen in the phuits in the Warren Field. The 
meadow fescue and timothy in the Stackyard Field were slightly 
injured, but the ryegrasses were not attacked at all. 
The next Table presents a contrast between the bulk yielded 
in the two fields where the experiments are carried on. As was 
to be expected, a heavier crop was obtained from the clay loam 
of the Warren Field than from the sandy loam of the Stack- 
yard Field. 
Total Green Produce from the Two Fields for both years (1887-1888) 
— calculated for an Acre. 
stackyard Field 
Warren Field 
" Annual " ryegrass .... 
tons cwts. qrs. lbs. 
2 11 1 4 
2 14 0 16 
2 9 3 12 
2 15 1 20 
3 16 2 24 
3 0 0 14 
3 9 1 20 
2 6 2 16 
tons cwts. qrs. lbs. 
3 6 0 16 
3 5 2 8 
3 12 8 
3 5 2 8 
5 14 2 0 
4 10 0 8 
5 19 2 16 
4 16 2 0 
II, Experiments with Single Grasses in Great Hill 
Bottom Field. 
The northern portion of this field was placed at my disposal 
for further grass experiments, and, with the approval of the Seeds 
and Plants Committee, it was divided into plots of one-eighth 
of an acre, and each plot was sown with a single species of grass, 
with the view of checking the results obtained from the smaller 
plots in the Stackyard and Warren Fields, of adding to the species 
of fodder plants experimented upon, and of making some trials 
as to the favour in which the different species are held by stock. 
No manure was applied to any of the plots. The grasses selected 
for experiment here are : — 
Perennial ryegrass, Lolium perenne, Linn. 
Cocksfoot, Dactylis glomerata, Linn, 
Meadow fescue, Festuca pratensis, Huds. 
Tall fescue, Festuca elatior, Linn. 
Foxtail, Alopecurus pratensis, Liun. 
Timothy, Phleum praf.ense, Linn. 
Rough-stalked meadow-grass, Poa trivialis; Linn, 
Smooth-stalked meadow-grass, Poa pratensis, Linn. 
