by Local Agricultural Societies. 
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The five plots sown for permanent pasiure continue to make 
good progress. Nos. 1 and 3 appear to be the best. Taking tlie 
quahty and the yield of grass together, No. 3 seems to be a more 
serviceable mixture than No. 1. These mixtures are as follows : — 
No. 1. 
24 lb. Devonshire ever- 
green rye-grass. 
4 lb. crested dogstail. 
4 lb. wild white clover. 
^ lb. sweet vernal grass. , 
The costs of these 
acre, and No. 3, \l. 8s. 
No. 3. 
2 lb. Italian rye-grass. 
6 lb. cocksfoot. 
6 lb. meadow fescue. 
3 lb. tall fescue. 
3 lb. timothy. 
4 lb. meadow foxtail. 
3 lb. white clover, 
1 lb. red clover. 
1 lb. alsike clover. 
mixtures were, in 1885, No. 1, I6s. dd. per 
Id. per acre. 
The wild white clover in No. 1 continues to spread very rapidly. 
Mr. Holland, the Society's Botanist, in his report, speaks of its abso- 
lutely perennial character. 
At Rostherne the experiments on grasses, commenced in 1887, 
are conducted in duplicate, with the exception that on one-half of 
the field the seeds were sown with oats, and on the other with wheat. 
Each of these plots was in 1888 divided into two equal parts, one of 
which was grazed, and the other mown and converted into hay. In 
1889 the hurdles were moved, so that half of the portions mown in 
1888 should be grazed, and half of the portions grazed in 1888 
should be mown. In 1890 the hurdles were moved back to their 
original position again. 
Thus, four divisions of the land were obtained : — ■ 
(1) One portion continuously mown. 
(2) „ „ continuously grazed. 
(3) ,, „ first mown, then grazed and mown alternately. 
(4) „ ,, first grazed, then mown and grazed altemately. 
The following table gives the results up to 1890. 
Rostherne. — Weights of Hay per acre, 1888, 1889, 1890. 
Plota seeded down with Wheat in 1S87. 
mown 1888 
grazed 1888 
Continuously mown 
grazed 1889 
mown 1889 
Plot 
mown 1890 
grazed 1890 
1888 
1889 
1830 
1890 
1889 
cwt. 
qr. 
cw-t, qr. 
lb. 
cwt. qr. 
cwt. qr. 
cwt. 
qr. lb. 
A 
47 
0 
40 0 
0 
23 0 
22 2 
22 
2 4 
B 
31 
0 
20 0 
0 
16 0 
22 0 
14 
0 0 
C 
38 
0 
28 0 
0 
17 0 
24 0 
18 
0 0 
D 
34 
2 
30 0 
0 
19 0 
23 0 
17 
0 0 
Plots seeded down with Oats in 1887. 
L 
30 
0 
32 0 
0 
26 0 
25 0 
36 
1 0 
K 
29 
0 
29 2 
16 
23 0 
21 0 
27 
1 0 
J 
33 
2 
37 1 
0 
26 0 
24 0 
29 
2 4 
I 
33 
0 
30 0 
0 
25 0 
20 0 
25 
0 0 
