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EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



5-6 EDWARD VII., A. 1906 



ROTATION 



This rotation of six years' duration 



ROTATION 

 This rotation of six years' duration includes no clover in the hay save 



ROTATION ' M.' 



This rotation of six years duration includes in its crops grain, grain, clover hay 

 and then timothy hay or mixed hay for three years. First year grain is sown on sod 

 ploughed late in the fall. In the spring the land is disked, harrowed and sown with 

 10-piJund of red clover seed per acre at the same time as the grain is sown. After 

 the grain is harvested the clover is allowed to grow as late as possible and the land 

 ploughed the last thing in the fall. The next spring 8 pounds of red clover and 10 

 pounds timothy seed is sown with the grain and the land put in as good shape as 

 Yjossible. 



Clover hay follows the second year grain. It is cut twice in the year and the last 

 aftermath not pastured. 



Timothy hay or mixed hay then occupies the land for three consecutive years. 

 Manure is applied in the fall of the second year that the field is under hay. 



M 1. This field was sown to oats May 1 and cut August 11. It includes a very 

 considerable area of black mucky soil which on account of the season became infested 

 with weeds and the crop had to be cut and fed green to cattle. In giving the returns 

 for this field this fact was borne in mind and allowance made. 



M. 2. This field was under clover hay. 



M. 3. This field was the one in the rotation that received manure in the fall of 

 1904. 



