144 EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



4 GEORGE V., A. 1914 

 Rotation ' I' (six years' duration). 



First year. — Flax. 



Second year. — Oats. 



Third year. — Summer-fallow. 



Fourth year. — Wheat. Seeded with grass and clover. 



Fifth year. — Hay. 



Sixth year. — Pasture. Manured. 



This rotation is very similar to ' H,' the difference being that one crop of wheat 

 is replaced by flax, and the position of the other crop of wheat is changed with the 

 oats, so that the seeding down is with wheat. This rotation is in the present ordei 

 this year for the first time. It occupies half of the same fields as occupied by ' H,' and 

 is under the same disadvantage as regards couch grass. 



The seeding mixture for both ' H ' and ' I ' is as follows : 8 pounds western 

 rye grass, 6 pounds red clover and 2 pounds alsike per acre. 



Rotation ' Q ' (eight years' duration). 



First year. — Roots and peas. 



Second year. — Wheat or oats. Seeded with grass and clover. 



Third year. — Hay. 



Fourth year. — Hay. 



Fifth year. — Pasture. 



Sixth year. — Pasture. 



Seventh year. — Pasture. 



Eighth year. — Green feed and rape. Manured in fall. 



This rotation is located in a piece of poor, gravelly soil, on the high land, at the 

 rear of the Experimental Farm. It is used as a sheep farm, and the rotation is 

 arranged accordingly. The first year is divided between peas and turnips. They are 

 sown on land that grew green feed and rape the year before, and was manured and 

 fall ploughed. The next year, the field is seeded down, with oats or wheat as a nurse 

 crop. Two years of hay and three of pasture follow. In the last year of pasture, the 

 land is ploughed in midsummer, and backset the following spring. A crop of green 

 feed (peas and oats), and a crop of rape for pasture, are grown the last year. The 

 land is then manured, and ploughed for the first year crops again. 



This rotation was in partial operation in 1911 and 1912, but is not yet in complete 

 operation. 



- Rotation ' W (ten years' duration). 



First year. — Wheat. 



Second year. — Wheat. 



Third year. — Corn or roots. 



Fourth year. — Oats. 



Fifth year. — Barley. 



Sixth year. — Alfalfa. Seeded without nurse crop. 



Seventh year. — Alfalfa. 



Eighth year. — Alfalfa. 



Ninth year. — Alfalfa. 



Tenth year.— Alfalfa. 



