REPORT OF THE AORICVLTURIST 



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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 

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* Pasture valued at §15 per Acre. 



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* 1,600 days pasture at 1 cent per day 

 t Pasture 1 sheep, 1 cent per day. 



ROTATIOX ' T.' 



Slieep Farm. 



This rotation of four years duration includes roots, grain, hay and pnsture. 



The area devoted to sheep farming is rather limited, about 10-72 acres. This are« 

 is not included in the ' 200-acre farm.' The whole field had been for several years de- 

 voted to pasturing sheep, but it has been divided into four rather unequal fields sus- 

 ceptible of further subdivision and devoted to a rotation considered suitable for sheep. 



The root field is devoted to white turnips, Swedes, cabbage, Kohl Eabi, thousand 

 headed kale, rape, &c. It comes after the pasture, the land being manured and ploughed 

 in the f all>. 



Grain follows the root land, and with the grain various clovers and grass seeds 

 are sown to prepare for the ensuing two years. The grain may be harvested or used 

 aa soiling crop for sheep. The hay field is expected to give one crop of hay and then be 

 devoted to pasture for lambs as soon as they are weaned. 



The pasture field is the field that has been hay the previous year. Alfalfa, red 

 clover, alsike clover, Bromus inermis and timothy are the clovers and grasses used. 



The croDS on this rotation were fairly satisfactory this year. 



