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SNEIBIDS JEQIS IEUAMS JINID) JAS INOIRIS, 
In the spring of 1899 the Agricultural Department of 
Reading College commenced three sets of experiments deal- 
ing with different seeds mixtures for hay and pasture. These 
have been made at the Home Farm, Strathfieldsaye (Berk- 
shire); on land at East Thorpe, Reading (Berkshire); and 
on the Plantation arm, Wolverton (Hampshire’. At Plan- 
tation farm and at Strathfieldsaye the plots are each } acre 
in area, and at Hast Vhorpe the plots are each #4. acre in 
area. Seven plots were sown down with different grass 
seeds mixtures, with the object of testing their suitability for 
a three or four years ley. The statement onthe next page gives 
the amounts of the different seeds sown per acre on the plots , 
as well as the cost at the time of sowing. | , 
In the case of the experiments made in the Ell Field of 
Strathfieldsaye Home Farm the soil is a stiff clay with a 
few flints lying on a subsoil of the London clay. The seeds 
were sown in the spring of 1899, the tand having previously 
been sown with wheat. After the wheat was harvested the 
young seeds did not promise well, but they made a consider- 
able improvement in the following spring. 
The plots were inspected on June 4th, 1900. At that time 
Plot 1 looked the best, with Plot 3 second, and Plots 5 and 6 
third. Plots 2 and 4 did not look better than Plots 1 and 3. 
On Plots 2 and 4 only afew kidney vetch plants were 
present, and the few chicory and burnet plants looked 
unsightly and rather coarse. Plot 7 looked the most un- 
satisfactory, probably because of the small amount of cow- 
grass clover on this plot, and because the stronger grasses 
had not had time toestablish themselves. Timothy promised 
