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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 

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* Loss. 



Rotation ' Z! 



This rotation of three years' duration includes corn, grain and clover hay in the 

 order named. 



Corn comes after the clover hay. The manure is applied during the fall or during 

 the -winter and spring, and the clover allowed to grow up through it, so facilitating 

 the turning under the whole mass of manure and spring growth and late fall growth 

 of clover, a few days before the corn is to be sovra. The furrow turned is quite shal'ow, 

 about five inches deep, and the land is then disc-harrowed, and the corn sown in rows 

 42 inches apart. It receives, later, the usual cultivation and care. 



Grain follows corn, the land having been ploughed in the fall. With the grain 

 there is sown 10 pounds red clover, 1 pound alsike and 5 pounds timothy seed. The 

 bay is cut twice, and the last aftermath allowed to grow up to be turned under the next 

 spring for corn. Such a rotation would be particularly valuable to a farmer having 

 sufficient rough land for pasture, or to one desirous of keeping as many cattle as 

 possible on the land at his disposal, supposing him willing to grow roots and corn. 

 Crops all light in 1908. 



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