EXPEIilMENTAL FARMS 



7-8 EDWARD VII., A. 1908 

 ROTATION 



ROTATION 



ROTATION ' E.' 



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



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

 rotation ' A.' With the grain in the spring is sown 10 lbs. red clover, 1 lb. alsilce 

 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 

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

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

 of what -^'ould 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 m.ade 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 posture. Manure applied during the fall and winter and 

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



