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EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



5 GEORGE v., A. 1915 



This is a rotation specially designed to supply soiling crops. Two years' 

 records only have been kept. 



If a careful examination of the above rotations be made there will be noted a 

 few desirable chara«... eristics common to all: — 



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 rotation " A." 



2. Grass and clover seedings are heavy. Increased crops of hay and rare 

 failures of a catch have justified them. 



3. Hoed crops form a large proportion of every rotation. An attempt to 

 farm a small area without a hoed crop was not successful. Weeds could not 

 readily be kept in check. 



4. No field is left in hay for more than two successive years. Our rec^ords 

 show that the second crop almost alwa'ys costs more per tori than the first, and 

 that succeeding crops are very liable to be grown at a loss. 



5. Barnyard manure is applied frequently, in comparatively small quanti- 

 ties, rather than at long intervals, in large quantities. 



In order that the net profits (profits after deducting cost of rent, all manual and 

 horse labour, manure, seed, twine and use of machinery) as well as the yields of 

 these rotations might be determined, careful records have been kept of all items 

 chargeable against the rotations. 



The following values have been fixed and are being used in this, and similar 

 work, on all the Eastern Farms and Stations: — 



Cost Values. 



Manual labour 



Horse labour, including teamster — 



Single horse 



2-hors6 team ■ 



3-horse team 



4-horse team 



Additional horses, each 



Rent 



Machinery (inclusive of threshing machinery) 



Barnyard manure (spread) 



Commercial fertilizers charged at cost. 



Seed wheat, oats, barley, buckwheat and rye 



Seed peas 



Turnip, mangel, potato and corn seed charged at cost. 

 Grass and clover seed charged at cost, total cost to be 



distributed over the number of years in hay and 



pasture. 

 Twine charged at cost. 

 Threshing charged according to actual labour expended, 



the items charged under this head to include only 



such operations as begin after the load of grain 



arrives at the feed table, or after the grain- is 



stacked or placed in the mow ready to be thrown 



on the feed table. Loading, hauling, etc., to be 



charged to manual and horse labour. 



Return Values. 



Wheat, oats, barley, rye and buckwheat 



Peas 



Hay (timothy, clover, alfalfa or mixed) 



Straw (wheat, oat, barley, rye, buckwheat or peas).. 



Corn ensilage 



Sugar beets 



Forage crops (green) •_ 



Turnips, carrots, mangels • 



Potatoes 



Pasture — 



Horses per head 



Cattle per head 



Sheep per head 



$0 17 per hour. 



