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mltcli[orVI*tillItcnysntiiriimiEL*)V*tocr.ter•lit\nbtheWiofrn i ml■ iiof tor mi i ain*:i;i\isin i-re-toCG8Ireneas•r-heinnlxperimenting With Fred Oett mg, Mansfield, Wright County.IHitsrein-lit]'«?nrin* experiment at Maiwtiold was put out on typie.nl upland of the Lebanon group of soils in the spring nf 11)11. the following Hovers ami grasses being used; limit by, red top, English rye grass, Kentucky blue grass. Canady blue grass, orchard grass, red clover, alsike clover unit white clover, together with the following mix-urea: Mixture Xn, 1, orchard grass, timothy and red clover? mixture Xo. 2, orchard grass. Canada blue grass, red and alsike clover? mixture No. *1, orehard grass. Kentucky blue grass, Canada blue grass, timothy, red alsike and white clover; mixture Xo. 4. a mixture of all. The trough! of 1*411 was hard on the young grass and el over, but all ol them catne through with at least partial stand. Observations made in Octolier, 11*12, show that orchard grass stands out as the It animat grass, with red top next, and timothy thin). Mr. Oetting reports in his general statement that the orchard grass was excellent and that the red top was extra good, while timothy would be ed good. lie altto status that he has tried bromus merulia and tliat jt needs stronger la ml than that on which this experiment was tried, lie states further that he sowed at the same time these grasses were sown, on new ground tmfler wheat, a mixture of orchard grass, bromus intermis, blue grass, alsike and mammoth elovers, together with three' and muHialf acres under oats with the same mixture, exclusive of the mummuth clover. He reports that the orchard grass did by far the best among these grasses, whiph corrohorntuA the finding on the experiment field. Evidently From this experiment', grasses like orchard grass and red top, mixed with red or white clover, would be satisfactory here.*—Missouri Agricultural Experiment StationBulletin 108,
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Mansfield Mirror
Mansfield, Missouri, US
Thu, Oct 16, 1913
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