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this month the growth is not sufficiently advanced, 

 these two sections may be left over until the following 

 April. Sometimes they are ready for mid-March, 

 when magnificent feeding for ewes and lambs will be 

 available. Indeed, is there anything under heaven 

 more delightful than ewes and lambs on a fine day 

 in early spring on a field of green feeding ? 



If this plan of grazing be followed there will be 

 an interval of several days between the ripening of 

 the different sections. Section C. will be ready first, 

 D. follows, then A. and B. The two latter will give 

 the earliest feeding in spring, and be, of course, 

 grazed first, and in consequence will ripen a few days 

 later than C. and D. 



The whole aim of this sectional grazing, as is the 

 whole aim of Continuous Cropping, is to divide the 

 labour on the farm — the running of the farm on 

 factory lines. 



The possibilities in this direction are many. 

 Beside the sowing of the corn at different times and 

 the subsequent grazing, the labour of sowing and 

 harvesting is spread over a very long period. Such 

 a division of labour at the present time is of the 

 greatest importance. 



An even distribution of the labour on a farm 

 throughout the year enables the farmer, during times 

 of stress, to " Carry on," not only to maintain his 

 present area under cidtivaiion, but, with his present 

 staff of horses, men, and machinery, to increase it. 



TROTTBLE FROM BIRDS 



One of the big drawbacks to the system of corn- 

 growing on the above lines is the amount of loss 

 sustained by the ravages of birds on the early-ripened 



