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especially in dairy districts, is because grass is a crop, 

 which while conditions may retard its growth, such 

 conditions never destroy the crop, and furthermore, 

 the very wet weather conditions, which militate 

 against the growing of ordinary tillage crops, causes 

 the grass, the natural forage crop, to grow with 

 greater luxuriance, and in recommending farmers to 

 adopt a system of tillage dairy farming, the writer 

 is really advocating a system of forage crop growing, 

 the growth of which, like grass, is favoured by moist 

 climate conditions. 



It may be here mentioned, that when the writer first 

 made his investigations on Continuous Cropping, some 

 fourteen years ago, the chief idea was the growing 

 of fodder and forage crops for conversion into animal 

 products, chiefly milk. The whole subject of tillage 

 dairy farming has since been dealt with by me in a 

 separate book on the subject, a book primarily written 

 for small farmers, but much of which is of equal im- 

 portance to the large farmer. Space does not permit 

 dealing with the subject in full in the present work, 

 and for this reason we must content ourselves with a 

 brief reference to the matter, chiefly as regards suit- 

 able dairy farm rotations. 



CORN V. FODDER PRODUCTION 



Before setting out rotations, it may be stated, that 



whilst for a few years at least, corn prices are likely 



| to be high, and that, apart from prices, the needs of 



I the nation demand as great an area of corn should be 



f i grown by every farmer as possible, yet, as soon as 



foever we are over our present corn shortage, a farmer 



whose land is situated in a heavy rainfall district 



would be well advised to adopt fodder and forage crop 



