REPORT OF THE AGRICULTURIST 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 

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Rotation ' Z.' 



This rotation of three years' duration includes corn, grain and clover hay in the 

 order named. 



Corn comes after the clover hay. The manure is applied during the fall or dur- 

 ing the winter and spring, and the clover allowed to grow up through it, so facilitating 

 the turning under of the whole mass of manure, late fall growth and spring growth of 

 clover a few days before the corn is to be sown. The furrow turned is quite shallow, 

 about five inches deep, and the land is then disc-harrowed and the corn sown in rows 

 42 inches apart. It receives later the usual cultivation and care. 



Grain follows corn, the land having been ploughed in the fall. With the grain 

 there is sown 10 lbs. red clover, 2 lbs. alsike, 6 lbs. alfalfa and 6 lbs. timothy seed per 

 acre. The hay is cut twice and the last aftermath allowed to grow up to be turned 

 under the next spring for corn. Such a rotation would be particularly valuable to a 

 farmer having sufficient rough land for pasture, or to one desirous of keeping as many 

 cattle as possible on the land at his disposal, supposing him willing to grow roots and 

 corn. 



Crops on this rotation were all good in 1910. 



