922, REPORT OF THE FARM SUPERINTENDENT OF THE 
Meadow Foxtail on plat 9 was the earliest grass to bloom and 
be ready to cut for hay. The crop was light, but this was 
retrieved by rapid growth and three cuttings. The many leaves 
and few culms of this grass, combined with its earliness and rapid 
growth after being cut back, make it one of the best pasture 
grasses. | Boas 
The crops of Alfalfa and Prickly Comfrey have been given in a 
separate table. Last year’s trials of Prickley Comfrey for hay and 
ensilage have been repeated. Although some of the leaves were 
preserved fresh in silo, yet we can not call this a successful plant 
for ensilage or for hay. Three crops were used in these trials, and 
as green food for the cows, but the fourth crop, which was about 
equal to those cut not being needed for feed, was allowed to stand 
until frosted, and has not been harvested. 
There was too little of our Comfrey to pay for the trouble of 
analysis, or it would have been used along with the other crops 
for the young stock. ; | 
Plat 10 was one of the earliest to be ready to cut, and gave the 
lightest crop. After haying the growth of grass came on slowly, 
but no one could have examined it closely without remarking the 
heavy mat of grass and white clover which covered the whole 
plat. It was so close and dense that the scythe failed to get it the 
- gecond time it was cut over. This Fescue seems to be fitted for 
close grazing. ; 
Alfalfa, spring rye, barley, peas and oats, Hungarian grass and 
corn have been used as soiling crops. Alfalfa has been, however, 
the mainstay, having been the first thing ready to feed in spring, 
and the fourth crop the last in fall. 
Second or new series. 
A few of the series of plats, known as A lower, were seeded last 
spring to a new set of grass seed mixtures, one-half of each with and 
half without grain, which was cut as a forage crop. The rye did 
not make a large growth, and, as it was cut early, the grass seed 
was not shaded as would generally be the case with grass sown 
with a grain crop. Owing probably to the short time the rye was 
on the ground, and the moist season, there is little difference in 
the appearance of the two halves of each plat. All the plats have 
been mowed with the machine, but no weights taken of the crops, © 
since those from all but where Sweet Clover and Johnson grass 
were sown, consisted largely of weeds and summer grasses. 
