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it ia being put in the hands of the capable staff of the Department 

 shows what it is possible to accomplish in this direction. 



The farm is composed of a stiffish boulder clay, rich in humus. 

 Part of it is set aside for experimental work. Different varieties 

 of potatoes and seeds are tested, Manurial experiments are 

 carried out. A good deal of space is devoted to horticultural 

 demonstration plots. About 70 acres is farmed in an eight-course 

 rotation, which provides scope for growing in the most up-to-date 

 fashion a variety of crops for winter- feeding of stock. The 

 remainder is in grass, and some of it is very fine, having been 



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greatly improved by the application of basic slag. The rotation 

 of crops is as follows : lea oats, followed by potatoes, which at 

 present embrace extensive variety tests. Wheat or oats is the 

 next crop, followed by green crops, such as mangolds and turnips. 

 Then comes another oat crop, which is succeeded by a variety of 

 green crops, care being taken to arrange the areas devoted to the 

 respective crops so as not to have turnips too frequently on the 

 same ground. These green crops are followed by oats, sown out 

 with seed for the succeeding year's hay crop, in which red clover 

 seemed to be grown in profusion. 



Stock- Breeding 



The farming, in addition to crop-growing, includes the manage- 

 ment of a great variety of live stock, comprising a herd of 

 breeding pigs ; about two score of breeding ewes ; a great number 

 of breeds of poultry in the adjoining poultry establishment — which, 



