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The Effect upon Yield of Cutting Sweet Clover (Melilotus Alba) at Different Times and at Different Heights 1
Author(s) -
Garber R. J.,
Hoover M. M.,
Bennett L. S.
Publication year - 1934
Publication title -
agronomy journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.752
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1435-0645
pISSN - 0002-1962
DOI - 10.2134/agronj1934.00021962002600110011x
Subject(s) - melilotus , citation , yield (engineering) , mathematics , horticulture , library science , agronomy , computer science , biology , physics , thermodynamics
In the late spring of 193 ~, 65 contiguous plats, each measuring 6 by 6 feet and surrounded by an alley ~8 inches wide, were staked out in a sweet clover field on the agronomy farm of the West Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station. Thirteen different cultural treatments. including the check were planned. Pour treatments and the check were arranged in the form of a Latin square. These treatments consisted of, cutting the sweet clover at different dates in ~ 93 ~, the same year the crop was seeded. The other eight treatments occurred on an adjacent area 5~.~ by 39 feet, each treatment being represented by five plats distributed at random. On this area the treatments consisted of cutting the sweet clover at different heights and at different stages of growth the second year after seeding. In Table ~ are shown the data obtained from the Latin square arrangement. Beginning with August ~, 1931, the sweet clover on five plats was cut at an approximate height of 6 inches with an ordinary hand sickle at each cutting date mentioned in column 1. In columns e and 3 the average approximate height of plants on May ~ S and June 30, 1932, are shown ....