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grown and fed to the horses. Potatoes are also grown in suffi- 

 cient quantities for table use. 



Red Clover is very largely used as a hay crop, and alsike is 

 also sown, though not so extensively, on low, moist ground. 

 Clover is a crop that has been found to be very valuable both in 

 its beneficial effect on the land and in its great feeding qualities. 

 Red Clover is a biennial and is therefore used in short rotations 

 where the sod is ploughed up again soon. It is sown without or 

 with a nurse crop, for which barley, oats and peas are all used, 

 the first appearing to be the best. The following are among the 

 mixtures used on this Farm: — 



1st. — Timothy, 3 lbs., Western Rye Grass, 5 lbs.. Red 

 Clover, 8 lbs., per acre. 2nd. — Timothy, 5 lbs.. Red Clover, 

 8 lbs. per acre. 3rd.^ — ^Western Rye Grass, 8 lbs.. Red Clover, 

 6 lbs., Alsike, 2 lbs., per acre. 4th. — Timothy, 5 lbs.. Red 

 Top, 3 lbs., Alsike, 4 lbs. per acre. 



Alfalfa is the heaviest yielding hay crop on the Farm; it 

 takes longer to get to its best than does clover, and requires to 

 be sown without a nurse crop. Once established, it produces 

 two heavy crops of hay each season and lasts for many years. 

 Grimm's, Turkestan and Common are the varieties grown. 



Rotations . 



In the part of the Farm set aside for experiments in 

 rotations (see map), the land set aside for each is divided into 

 as many fields as there are years in the rotation, and each field 

 has each crop in the order of the rotation. The fields are number- 

 ed in the opposite direction to the sequence of the crops, so that 

 the crop that is on field No. 1 this year will be on field No. 2 

 next year. An account is kept of the receipts and expenditures 

 in connection with each, so that the results show which of the 

 systems of farming, as represented by the different rotations, 

 is the most profitable. Chemical analyses made of the soil on 

 the rotation check plots, of which there is one to represent each 

 rotation, will show which conserves best the fertility of the 

 soil. 



A. Wheat continuously. (Used only in the |-acre check plot) . 



D. 1st year. — Wheat (manure in fall). 

 2nd year — ^Wheat. 



3rd year. — Oats. 



4th year. — Summer-fallow. 



E. 1st year. — Wheat (no manure). 

 2nd year. — ^Wheat. 



3rd year. — Oats. 



4th year. — Summer-fallow. 



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