20 DOMINION EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



The piggery operations have always proved highly success- 

 ful financially, and we should never hesitate to recommend the 

 raising of swine, especially on a dairy farm, where dairy bye- 

 products are available. 



Sheep. 



A limited area for grazing purposes has necessitated our 

 carrying only small flocks of Leicesters and Shropshires. They 

 are being handled as a commercial flock and though our con- 

 ditions for sheep raising are anything but the best, they have 

 proved themselves a valuable asset to the Farm. 



The experimental work has been chiefly with fattening 

 lambs, where corn ensilage has demonstrated itself the equal of 

 roots. 



The Dairy. 



A small dairy for the care and preparation of the milk for 

 market is operated. In it are installed such appliances as would 

 be needed on a farm where 60 to 70 cows are kept and where 

 butter and cheese are manufactured at home. A power separ- 

 ator and churn, a small cheese vat and a Babcock tester, together 

 with the necessary smaller appHances, make up the equipment. 



The greater part of the cream is manufactured into butter 

 and sold to private customers. A portion is utilized for the 

 making of cheeses of various kinds. Several fancy cheeses have 

 been attempted, and, where a good market for such products is 

 assured, their manufacture is likely to materially enhance the 

 dairyman's profit. 



Rotations at Ottawa. 



On the Central Experimental Farm there are at present 

 13 diiferent rotations being tried. 



In field crops the number of varieties grown, and the varying 

 areas under each make it somewhat diflScult to give an adequate 

 idea of the work going on within the limits of a brief article. 



The aim in view is to obtain definite results as to the relative 

 values of different rotations with varied cultural methods, these 

 results to serve the farmer as a basis for the management of general 

 farm crops. 



The term ''rotation of crops" is used to designate a certain 

 sequence, which regularly repeats itself each time the course of 

 crops is run. It really implies, further, that the crops follow each 

 other in such order as to insure to each, supplies of plant food 

 suitable in quantity and character to produce the best returns 



