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Grass T^xperimenis at Wohum. 
Tall oatgrass, Acena elatior, Curtis. 
Brome-grass, Bromus inermis, Leyss. 
Fiorin, Agrostis alba, var. stolonifera, Sm. 
Yarrow, Achillea Millefolium, Linn. 
The seeds were sown on May 12 and 13, 1888. The two 
meadow-grasses, foxtail, fiorin, and timothy did not succeed in 
forming a plant, and they will be re-sown in the spring. The plots 
were covered throughout the summer with annual weeds, and 
were mown several times with the view of getting rid of the 
weeds. In October, five of the plots were fairly free from weeds, 
and being cut yielded the following green produce : — 
Rate per acre, 
tons cwts.qrs. lbs. 
Perennial ryegrass 14 2 0 
Cocksfoot 1 G 1 12 
Meadow fescue 0 18 2 0 
Tall fescue 0 18 2 8 
Tall oat-grass 0 18 0 16 
These results are recorded, but the experiment can scarcely 
yet be said to be begun. 
III. Permanent Pasture, with and without Ryegrass, 
IN Great Hill Bottom Field. 
These experiments were instituted with the view of determin- 
ing the relative worth of different quantities of the same seed in 
laying down pasture, and the value of ryegrass when employed 
with the other grasses. Three plots, an acre each in size, were 
sown with grass-mixtures without ryegrass, and three plots of 
half an acre each with grass-mixtures containing ryegrass. The 
same number of seeds were sown on each double plot, a certain 
quantity of the larger seeds being replaced in the half-acre plot 
by a corresponding number of ryegrass seeds. In 1886, the 
seeds were sown at the rate of 20,000,000, of 16,000,000, and 
of 11,500,000 to the acre. The heaviest-seeded acre and a half 
was sown with oats, but completely failed, and the portion was 
ploughed up, and re-sown with the same number of seeds with- 
out oats, but again failed. The produce of the seeds in the other 
two plots having shown that so large a number of seeds as 
20,000,000 were not required to obtain a heavy crop, it was re- 
solved to try a smaller number of seeds than had hitherto been 
used. The acre and a half were accordingly divided, and one 
half was laid down in May 1888 with 16,000,000 seeds, and the 
other with 8,000,000, no ryegrass being used. The results of 
the season's growth are given, though no deductions can as yet 
be drawn from them. The next two years will show whether, 
by tillering, the smaller number of plants will more rapidly 
increase, and overtake the more heavily seeded plot. 
