CONTINUOUS CHOPPING ROTATIONS 201 



12 lbs. of sainfoin may be used with the mixture. In 

 every case a portion of scarlet clover (tri folium incar- 

 natun) should be included in the mixture. Where 

 land is suitable for lucerne, this admirable crop should 

 be sown. 



The tares grown in the third period of the rotation 

 may also be made into hay or ensilage, but since the 

 crop will not usually be ready for cutting until August 

 in most districts — and it follows from what has been 

 stated before that any rotation designed chiefly for the 

 growing of fodder and forage crops for animal food is 

 essentially a wet district rotation — the crop should be 

 made into ensilage. The seed sown in the first year 

 will, at the first cutting, be ready for June, a month 

 during which it is not difficult to make hay. 



An endeavour should be made to cut the seeds hay 

 at the same time as a portion of the tares. The two 

 crops blend very well together in stacking, and will, 

 when so blended, make admirable feeding. The crop, 

 when consumed with " winter greens " and ensilage, 

 enables the farmer to turn out prime beef without the 

 use of cakes. 



In this particular rotation and others of a similar 

 nature there is one point requiring close attention. In 

 practice, farmyard manure may not be available for 

 the crops sown during the first and second periods 1 of 

 the rotation. It follows that the crop grown during 

 these periods must be very liberally manured with 

 artificial manures until, at least, the general fertility 

 of the land has been toned up. If this is not done the 

 result will be very disappointing, but, whilst what 

 the farmer may look upon an excessive expenditure 

 on artificials is required for the crop under discussion, 

 no further artificials will be required for the crops in 

 the third, fourth, and fifth periods of the rotation, 

 except on very poor land. 



