REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR 



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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



Cost of Production of Field Crops, Central Farm, 1913, 



rotations of crops. 



The value of suitable rotations of crops is too often underestimated by oiu* 

 farmers. The results of our experiments in this connection would indicate that in 

 the management of crops the order in which they are grown is of great im-portance. 

 There are now in operation, for various purposes, fifteen rotations. For ordinaiy 

 rfarm purposes any one of the following will likely be found satisfactory: — 



Rotation 'A' (five years' duration). 



Hoed crop, manured. — Grain, seeded down with clovers and grass. Clover hay, 

 top dressed with manure in autumn. Timothy hay, field ploughed in August, 

 ^op worked and ribbed up in. October. Grain, seeded down with red clover to be 

 ploughed under the following spring when the succeeding hoed crop is corn. 



Rotation ' B' {five years' duration). 



Hoed crop, manured. — Grain seeded down with clovers and grass, seeds top 

 dressed with manure in autumn. Clover hay, ploughed in autumn. Grain seeded 

 down with clovers and grass. Clover hay. 



Soiling Crop Roiadion ' R' {three years' duration). 



Hoed crop, manured.— Grain, seeded down with clover and gras5. Clover hay, 

 ftimothy hay, field plouglied in Aug^ust, top worked and ribbed up in October. 



Soiling Crop Rotation ' R' {three years' duration). 

 Hoed crop, manured. — Grain, seeded down with clovers and grass. Clover hay. 



Soiling Crop Rotation ' R ' (three years' duration). 



Corn for early fall feed, manured. — Peas and oats to cut green, seeded down 

 with clover.'; and gra.ss. Clover hay, to cut green. 



Some characteristics of the above rotations, desirable under almost any condi- 

 tions, are as follows: — 



1, Grain fields are always seeded down with clover, even though it be used only 

 as a fertilizer, as in the case of the fifth year of rotati-on 'A.' 



•2. (Jras3 and clover seedings arc heavy. Increased crops of hay and rare fail- 

 ures of a catch have justified them. 



