REPORT OF TEE AGRICULTURIST 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 

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ROTATION Z. 



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

 crder named. 



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

 ■winter and spring, and the clover allo-wed to grow up through it, so facilitating the 

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

 clover a few days before the com is to be sown. The furrow turned is quite shallow, 

 about 5 inches deep, and the land is then thoroughly disc-harrowed and the corn sown 

 ill 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 lbs. red clover, 1 lbs. alsike and 5 lbs. timothy seed. The hay 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 for one desirous of keeping as many cattle as possible on 

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



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