Department of Farm Practice xxxiii 



FARM practice 



J. L. Stone, Professor of Farm Practice 



There were sixty-five students registered in the farm-practice course, 

 thirty-eight of whom completed the work. This is about the same pro- 

 portion as in the two preceding years. The records of the Department 

 indicate that those who drop this course are very Hkely either not to 

 return to the University or to change to some other college. 



The work with the general winter-course students followed similar 

 lines to those of previous seasons. An effort was made to adapt the teach- 

 ings to the emergency conditions brought about by the war. The more 

 important effect was to emphasize the teaching regarding the growing 

 of the cereal grains for himian food, and of the legumes, especially clover, 

 for stock food. 



The farming on the college domain does not vary greatly from that 

 of last year. The present food emergency and the high price of stock 

 feeds has led to added effort to utilize all available land, so far as possible, 

 to increase the output of bread grains, and to grow as much as possible 

 of leguminous forage, especially clover and alfalfa. The general rotation, 

 followed with some variations, is com, oats, wheat, hay. The effort is to 

 have clover constitute as much as possible of the hay grown in these 

 rotations. 



Another attempt to increase production of wheat or rye and clover 

 is to utilize as far as practicable the land not in bur regular rotations 

 in growing alternately winter grain and clover, thus making a two-years 

 rotation with both crops emergency crops. The practicability of this 

 has not yet been fully demonstrated. The present season's crop areas, 

 not including the experimental areas of the various departments, are as 

 follows : 



Com ' . . 59 acres 



Oats 50 



Wheat 67 



Rye 7 



Clover 31 



Timothy and mixed 73 



Alfalfa 30 



Potatoes 2§ 



Roots 2 



Oats and peas 8 



Total 329^ acres 



