CHAPTER XVII 



CONTINUOUS CROPPING ROTATIONS 



As vvith ordinary rotations, there are several factors 

 which must be taken into consideration when framing 

 a Continuous Cropping rotation. These factors, gener- 

 ally speaking, are soil, labour, markets and climate. 

 In the writer's opinion, the last named factor has not 

 previously, in framing rotations, been much taken 

 into consideration, but it should be the dominant 

 factor. To a certain extent, it has been the dominant, 

 not in causing the farmer to alter his tillage system, 

 but in causing him to abandon tillage altogether, con- 

 verting his arable land into pasture. 



GRASS DAIRY-FARMING METHODS 



Concomitant with this change, there has been 

 another big change in the general system of farming, 

 viz. : farmers have gone in more for stock keeping, 

 in many districts, the stock being dairy cows for the 

 production of milk, the demand for which, in recent 

 years, has increased enormously. In fact, milk pro- 

 duction or dairy farming in these countries at the 

 present time is always associated with grass farming. 

 Generally a small portion of the farm is devoted to 

 tillage, a little corn being grown for home food and 

 the straw for litter, roots also being grown for succu- 

 lent food in winter. A portion of the land is also 



