Typical Farms in Cheshire and North Wales. 
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No. 4.-3 lb. Italian Rye-grass. 
2 lb. Meadow Foxtail. 
2 lb. Cocksfoot Grass. 
4 lb. Tall Fescue. 
8 lb. Meadow Fescue. 
2 lb. Timothy Grass. 
4 lb. White Clover, (wild) 
1 lb. Rough-stalked Mea- 
dow Grass. 
5 lb. Devonshire Evergreen 
Ryegrass. 
In all 31 lb. per acre, costing 19s. 6 d. 
The plots have done well, and a good permanent turf has been secured in 
each case, but No. 2 appeared to bear the best herbage when inspected. 
The mixture on this plot is almost identical with that on one of the experi- 
mental sections on the Manchester and Liverpool Society’s land, which also 
locked extremely well, and which had stood the test of four years’ growth. 
Mr. Roberts contends that the experiments on his farm have demonstrated 
that the more costly mixtures formerly recommended by seedsmen for 
permanent pastures were unnecessary, and in most instances results were 
obtained inferior to those from the No. 2. mixture he has so successfully 
used. 
In 1890 Mr. Roberts on a 21-acre field of his arable course also tried the 
following mixtures of seeds for remaining down temporarily only. The 
plots were divided into 7 acres each, and were seeded as follows — 
No. 1. — 10 lb. Italian Rye-grass. 
4 lb. Cocksfoot Grass. 
1 lb. Timothy Grass. 
3 lb. Red Clover. 
1 lb Alsike Clover. 
1 lb. Trefoil. 
2 lb. White Clover (Dutch). 
2 lb. White Clover (wild). 
No. 2. — 6 lb. Italian Rye-grass. 
G lb. Perennial Rye-grass. 
4 lb. Red Clover. 
2 lb. White Clover (wild). 
1^ lb. Alsike Clover. 
]-§ lb. Trefoil. 
No. 3. — 14 lb. Italian Rye-grass. 
1 lb. Cocksfoot Grass. 
1 lb. Timothy Grass. 
G lb. Red Clover. 
1 lb. Alsike Clover. 
1 lb. Trefoil. 
1 lb. White Clover (Dutch). 
1 lb. White Clover (wild). 
These were mown in 1891, grazed in 1892, and mown again this year. 
Nos. 1 and 3 are far superior to No. 2, although the red clover has died out. 
The perennial rye-grass appears to overcome the other seeds on No. 2, and 
the stock will not graze it, while most of the original grasses are to he 
found on the others. The remaining plots were full of white clovers, and 
the herbage was succulent. No. 1 carries the palm, and its suitability to the 
land is shown on a 36-acre field (two-year-old ley), which is a magnificent 
pasturage, notwithstanding its having been heavily grazed with cattle, 
sheep, and horses since the early spring. Mr. Roberts in the earlier part 
of his tenancy had laid down and renovated some 70 acres of pastures, 
and since 1886 has put another 37 acres into grass on the Catherine Farm 
with his No. 3 mixture. This land hears a good face, having been 
dressed either with farmyard manure or compost of lime and soil mixed, 
and assisted much by the trough- and root-feeding of the sheep in the 
winter and spring. The practice pursued is to mow, in addition to the 
clovers, a moderate area of permanent grass, which afterwards receives 
a dressing of farmyard manure. The outlay for bone and nitrogenous 
manures is about 120Z. per annum. 
The live-stock on the farm consisted of — 
14 cart horses (including 3 breeding 
mares and foals). 
2 two-year-old cart colts. 
3 yearling ditto. 
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18 milking cows in calf or milk. 
85 steers and heifers rising two years 
old. 
21 steers and heifers (calves). 
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