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EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



' 5 GEORGE v., A. 1915 



The work done with these rotations, to date, has not given the results which might 

 have been expected, as the long rotation has given the greatest profit. The figures 

 are, nevertheless, interesting. It must be understood that for the three and four year 

 rotations, the season of 1911 was of a preparatory nature, and that 1912 was one of 

 the worst years for spring work in the past quarter-century. It was therefore to be 

 expected that the six-year rotation, with its four years in hay, would forge ahead. 

 Then again, the piece of land where is located rotation " K " had been under a good 

 four-year rotation for eight years, whereas the area where are the two others, was an 

 old pasture in rather poor condition. 



Costs, Eeturxs axd Losses of Eotations " D," " C," and " K," average of 3 years. 



The above figures, showing a loss throughout, do not at first sight appear encourag- 

 ing. That all these rotations are rapidly improving and will soon show a handsome 

 profit seems apparent, however, when the following table is examined: — 



Increase in Value of Products of Rotations " D," " C," and " K," in 3 years. 



Items. 



Value of products per acre, 1913 



" 1911 



Increase in value of products from 1911 to 1913 



Per cent increase in value of products from 1911 to 1913 



Rotation, 

 D. 



% cts. 

 28 06 

 16 80 



11 20 

 67 



Rotation. 

 C. 



Rotation. 

 K. 



I cts. 

 23 14 

 12 67 



10 47 

 83 



$ cts. 

 22 51 

 15 58 



6 93 

 44 



EATES or SEEDING. 



Experiments have been undertaken to find the best rates of seeding corn for silage, 

 oats, timothy and clover, and the effect on the yield of hay of different rates of seeding 

 oats. As these experiments have not been long under way, however, the results may 

 not yet be taken as conclusive. 



RATES OF SEEDING CORN FOR SILAGE. 



As in 1911 and 1912, Longfellow corn was ."own at different spaces both in rows and 

 in hills. The following table gives the yields in 1913, and the average yields for three 



years : — 



Cap Eouge. 



