REPORT OF THE AGRICULTURIST 



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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 

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Iiotation ' T.' 



(Sheep Farm.) 



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



The area devoted to sheep farming is rather limited, about 11.06 acres. This 

 area is not included in the ' 200-acre ' farm. The whole area has been for several 

 years devoted to pasturing sheep, but it has been divided into four rather unequal fields, 

 susceptible of further subdivision, and devoted to a rotation considered suitable for 

 sheep. 



The root field is devoted to white turnips, swedes, cabbage, kohl rabi, thousand- 

 headed kale, etc. It comes after the pasture, the land being' manured and ploughed in 

 the fall. 



Grain follows on 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 for 

 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 in hay the previous year. Alfalfa, red 

 ciover, alsike clover, brome grass (hromus inermis) and timothy are the clovers and 

 grasses used. 



The crops on this rotation were fair this year. 



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