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EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



ROTATION 

 This rotation of five years duration is that which has been folio-wed for tlie 



ROTATION 

 This rotation of five yeai's duration is a modification 



ROTATIOX E. 



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



The grain comes after the corn, the stuhblc of which is treated as described under 

 Rotation ' A.' With the grain in the spring is sown 10 lbs. red clover, 1 lb. alsik e 

 clover, 5 lbs. Alfalfa clover and 5 lbs. timothy seed per acre. If weather permits tli3 

 field is pastured slightly in the fall. 



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

 this object in view. In estimating the value of the returns from this field, pasture is 

 charged at $1 per month per cow. 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 tho 

 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 probnble from land pastured and 

 land from which all the crops are harvested- Of course, it is just possible that the corn 

 crop after the pasture may in a measure make up for the difference in favour of the 

 no pasture rotation ' Z.' 



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

 turned under with the growth of clover in the spring. The land is ploughed shallow 



