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EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



5-6 EDWARD VII., A. 1906 

 ROTATION 



ROTATION 



ROTATION E; 



This rotation of three years' duration includes grain, pasture and com. 



The grain comes after the com, the stubble of -which is treated as described under 

 rotation ' A.' With the grain in the spring is so-wn 10 lbs. red clover, 1 lb. alsike 

 clover, 5 lbs. alfalfa and 5 lbs. timothy seed per acre. If -weather permits the field is 

 pastured slightly in the fall. 



After the grain crop the land is pastured, the grass seeding having been done 

 vpith this object in view. In estimating the value of the returns from this field, pas- 

 ture is charged at $1 per month per cov?-. At this rate the returns fall very far short 

 of -what -would have been the returns if a hay crop had been harvested, if -we may 

 judge by the returns from ' Z 2.' This rotation and rotation Z -were introduced into 

 the list in order to gain some idea as to the difference in returns probable from land 

 pastured and land from -which all the crops are harvested. Of course the corn crop 

 after the pasture has in a measure made up for the difference in favour of the no 

 pasture rotation ' Z,' but the returns are on the -whole still considerably short of those 

 from ' Z.' 



Corn follows the pasture. Manure is applied during the fall and -winter and 

 turned under with the growth of clover grass in the spring. 



