374 Field Hxpariniients at Wohurn in 1889 and 1890. 
D. Experiments ox Permaxext Pasture. 
Four plots were laid down in Great Hill Bottom Field in 1886, 
and two others, in 1888, with mixtures of grass and clover seeds at 
varying cost, as follows : 
Per acre 
(/. 
1886 Plot lA 9,869,000 seeds ivithont rye-grass, costing 20 10 
„ IB 14,968,000 
„ „ 2A 14,394,000 
„ 2B 19,447,000 
,, n-ith 
„ without 
,, 7vith 
„ 17 
» 29 
., 24 
6 
Hi 
3^ 
1888 „ 3 A 16.000.000 
„ 3B 8,000,000 
„ without 
„ without 
»» 
26 
13 
0 
0 
One half of each plot is manured yearly with 5 cwt. per acre 
decorticated cotton-cake-meal and mown for hay, the other is fed 
off with sheep consuming the same amount of cake on the plots. In 
1889 and 1890 the meal was sown in March on the halves to be 
mown, and two cuttings were taken, the first near the end of June, 
the second early in September. The sheep feeding off the grass 
went over it four times in 1889 (beginning August 4, June 1, July 
13, and September 10), and three times in 1890 (beginning May 12, 
June 28, August 27), the first time without cake and afterwards 
with it. 
The produce of the hayed plots is given in Table VIII. 
Table VIII. — Produce of Hay per Acre ix 
Great Hill Bottom. 
Produce per acre 
Plot 
Total produce 
of the three 
years 1886-88 
Proiluce in 
1889 
Produce in 
1890 
tons cwt.qr. lb. 
tonsc»-t.qr.lb. 
tonscwt.qr.lb. 
s. 
d. 
lA 
8 18 2 25 
3 9 10 
2 8 3 10 
Without rye-grass, cost per acre 
20 
10 
IB 
8 9 0 26 
2 15 0 4 
2 3 14 
With „ 
17 
6 
2A 
8 18 1 6 
3 6 10 
2 8 0 10 
Without 
29 
lU 
2B 
9 4 0 24 
2 17 2 12 
2 2 0 0 
With „ „ 
24 
•ii 
1888 
3a 
1 10 0 17 
4 19 1 25 
3 4 2 18 
Thick seeding „ 
26 
0 
3b 
1 0 1 23 
5 0 3 6 
3 6 1 23 
Thin „ „ * 
13 
0 
E. Miscellaneous Experiments. 
1. Varieties of Oats. 
Three varieties, viz.—" New Zealand," " Cluster," and 
" American Triumph " were sown side by side in Road Piece Field 
in 1889 at the rate of 9 pecks per acre and manured alike. The' 
first two varieties were ready to cut on August 8, but the American 
one not until August 22. The harvest results were : — 
