Lhcal Agi'ieuUural 'Socieiies. 
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4 lbs. Italian Ryegrass. 
G „ Cocksfoot Grass. 
3 „ Meadow Fescue Grass. 
2 „ Tall Fescue Grass. 
2 „ Meadow Foxtail Grass, 
Plot No. 6. 
3 lbs. Timotliy Grass. 
3 „ Red Clover. 
H „ White Clover. 
ll ,, Alsike Clover. 
As regards permanent pasture mixtures, no great difference 
can be noted ; and, indeed, time alone can settle the matter, some 
grasses, e.g. Meadow Foxtail, only showing the fourth year. 
As far as tlie experiments on rotation grasses have gone, 
they would appear to be all against complicated and expensive 
mixtures, plot 14. (22 lbs. Italian Ryegrass, and 10 lbs. Ame- 
rican Eed Clover) having done as well as anything. Mr. Hol- 
land especially comments on plot 1, a cheap mixture which has 
formed a wonderfully thick sward and covered the ground very 
quickly, and which was composed as follows : — 
Plot No. 1. 
24 lbs. Devonshire Evergreen 
Ryegrass. 
4 ,, Crested Dogstail' Grass. 
4 lbs. Wild White Clover. 
h .„ ■ Sweet Vernal Grass. 
He adds that, though probably not generally to be recom- 
mended on low-lying lands,' on poor land and in elevated posi- 
tions such a mixture would lbe_ found very useful as a sheep 
pasture. Of tlie separate specimen, plots, that of Bird's-foot Tre- 
foil (Lotus cornicidatus) was the best and the most sought after 
by the sheep when put^on it : 'so. much so, indeed, that they went 
on it at the first opportunity .and kept it bare. On the plot 
containing it as a constituent of the mixture, the same luxu- 
riance was noticed. Mr. Holland says there appears to be some 
difficulty in getting the - seed pure,, but attention should cer- 
tainly be directed to'its further cultivation.' 
B. — Grass Experiments at .Hostherne. 
This, the second experimental station, had its origin in the 
libei^ality of Lord Egerton .of. Tiitton, who, besides bearing the 
cost, has placed at the society's disposal every facility for carry- 
ing out the experiments. Upon a field planted one half with 
wheat and the other half with oats, seeds both for permanent 
pasture and for four years' and two years' ley were sown in the 
spring of 1887. The plots are half an acre each in extent, each 
mixture being sown in duplicate, in the one case in the wheat 
crop, and in the other in the oats. The dry summer of 1887 
has unfortunately militated greatly against obtaining a good 
plant, and there is at present nothing special to record about 
this experiment. 
