SEEDS HOR HAY AND PASTURE: 461 
2 lb, of kidney vetch and more cowgrass clover, would give 
a very good result on this land. 
So far as the plants added to plots 2 and 4 are concerned, 
burnet has not proved useful at any of the centres ; it is more 
in evidence at Wolverton than at the other two centres, and 
where it occurs it apparently greatly lessens the value of the 
herbage. Turther it is evidently not desirable to cultivate 
this plant in the south of England, where it is looked upon as 
a troublesome weed, especially on sainfoin soils. 
Chicory has grown much stronger on the gravelly soil at 
Reading than at the other two centres. In hay, when it 
develops, it produces strong, coarse stems, which are unsightly 
and must lessen greatly the value ofthe hay. It is evidently 
nota desirable plant to include in a seeds mixture on ordinary 
soils, whatever its value may be as a grazing plant on poor 
soils, where other pasture plants wiil not establish them- 
selves. 
Kidney vetch has done best on the chalk soil at Wolverton. 
Its success there suggests the advisability of including this 
plant in a seeds mixture for chalk soils; so far it has not 
been successful on the heavy soil at Strathfieldsaye or the 
light soil at Reading. 
Sainfoin has established itself well on the chalk soil at 
Wolverton, but so far has done little at the other two 
centres. Lucerne has done well on the chalk at Wolverton 
and on the gravelly soil at Reading, but not on the clay soil 
at Strathfieldsaye. Among the grasses timothy and the rye- 
grasses have done well on the clay, the ryegrasses and 
meadow fescue on the chalk, andon the light gravelly soil at 
Reading cocksfoot and the ryegrasses were developed to the 
greatest extent. DovGLAS A] GILCHRIST, 
