late fertility. In this way one is able to get bumper crops 

 with a minimum expenditure on artificial manures, and if 

 good temporary pastures are secured with the aid of suitable 

 mixtures containing, say, HALF-POUND GENUINE WILD 

 WHITE CLOVER PER ACRE, the farm will carry a big stock, 

 and do them well with a comparatively small amount of cake. 

 Hence the great value of this system of lengthening the rota- 

 tion by leaving the land down to good temporary pasture for 

 two or three years, lies in the fact that the land produces 

 much bigger crops, and carries a much larger head of live 

 stock, with a minimum of expenditure on artificials and cake. 

 The system, therefore, fits in exactly with present war con- 

 ditions, inasmuch as the food is being produced on the most 

 economical lines. 



INCREASING YIELD OF CEREALS. 



An important thing to keep in mind, where this method 

 is adopted and allowed by the County War Agricultural 

 Executive Committee, is that all the pasture land which can 

 reasonably be ploughed should be brought into tillage, so 

 that the area under cereal crops each year is at least main- 

 tained. The increased production of cereals will, therefore, 

 be obtained by making each acre produce bigger crops than 

 would be possible under the system of " too close crop- 

 ping/' which has been so widely practised in recent years. 

 Further, from the landlord's point of view, their farms will 

 be in a much less exhausted state at the end of the war, 

 and there appears to be no evidence to show that more food 

 will be produced under present circumstances. In fact, 

 the danger lies in the other direction. 



In this way one has a steady, reliable method of food 

 production on farms, on the most economical lines, and what 

 is so important is that the farmer has two strings to his bow. 

 The guaranteed prices for cereals, grains, &c., may or may 

 not come to an end in a very few years, and if the former 

 should be the case, the farmer would be able to decide 

 whether or not to leave his land down to pasture for a more 

 extended period. If he used a suitable three years' mixture 

 containing genuine wild white clover, he would be able to 

 leave the pasture down permanently, whenever this was 



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