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three years in succession on the Experimental Farm, on a small scale, on 

 comparatively old permanent pasture, and on that of two years' standing, 

 have clearly proved that seven sheep per acre can be well done to. 

 This is equivalent to one and one-quarter cow per acre. There is, then, 

 no other form of fodder that can do the same thing. 



(G) IT GIVES THREE TIMES MORE BEEF AND MUTTON PER ACRE THAN 

 OUR ORDINARY ROTATION PASTURES. 



Tin- average timothy and clover pastures of the country, in connection 

 with mixed farming, just graze on an average, one cattle beast to ev 

 three acres taking from 1st May to 1st November on an average of 

 This is substantially correct. But we have shown in the preceding 

 paragraph, that three and three-quarter cows can be kept on three acres of 

 the permanent kind required, arid as the proper stamp of two-year-old 

 steers and heifers preparing for the butcher eat more than an ordinary 

 milk cow, we shall say one beefing animal per acre. There are at the 

 nt time about 20,000,000 arable acres in Ontario, possessing practi- 

 cally no permanent pasture, but 3,500,000 acres of rotation pasture that do 

 or should therefore maintain 1,190,000 head of, say, beefing cattle. Were 

 only one-tenth of this rotation pasture under the permanent form of it 

 the annual gain to the Province would exceed $11,000,000. The magni- 

 tude and national value of a few acres, per farm, of first-class permanent 

 pasture is thus apparent. 



(7) IT CAN BE USED AS A SOILING CROP ANNUALLY. 



\Vheii.-\vrythiniT i> most propitious and grass abundant, and where a 

 number of bulls and calves are housed during summer, and a reliable cut 

 . t'oder is most important, this can always be had from well-man- 

 aged, permanent pasture, early and late, at the rate of ten tons per fti 

 reight, where no systematic soiling crops are upheld. 



(8) IT is I.KSS I XIM NSIVI TO PRODUCE AND MAINTAIN THAN ANY OTH1 1: 



CROP. 



it cannot be maintained that there is no trouble, time, and ex- 

 ablisliiiiLT .successfully all that we desiiv in tin- OOH- 

 ion, nor th;it its p.-rmam-in-y and valm- an he upht'ld without t.p- 

 / material-, it isnol difficult to 9*6 that once fairly afoot, perman- 

 t deal le re per annum proportionately to 



than any other CTOp '-an possibly do. 



