UNSOUND SYSTEMS OF TILLAGE 71 



The suggested rotation is as follows: — 



1st Years Break. Late summer or early 

 autumn-sown corn, grazed in autumn and spring 

 with sheep and inter-cropped with a forage crop 

 of " winter greens." 



2nd Years Break. The forage crop consumed 

 on the land by sheep in February, March, and 

 early April, and then spring oats sown, which 

 in turn would be inter-cropped with a tare crop. 



3rd Years Break. Tares sown as inter-crop in 

 the second year, grazed in the autumn of the 

 second year, and in the spring of the third year, 

 then inter-cropped with " winter greens." The 

 tares in the summer of the third year cut for 

 hay, or ensilage, and the " winter greens " to 

 provide winter feeding from October until the 

 end of March. 



4th Years Break. Spring corn, with which is 

 sown seeds and sainfoin. 



5th Year's Break. Seeds and sainfoin first 

 crop " hayed," aftermath ensiled. 



6th Year's Break. Seeds and sainfoin pas- 

 tured, then sown with summer corn as in first 

 year. 



A study of the modified rotation will show that, 

 from the beginning to the end of the rotation, the 

 land will be at all times carrying a crop. 



