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cows, and in the latter more attention is given to the 

 raising and feeding of dry stock. Of course the gross 

 revenue per acre will be higher under Rotation A than 

 under Rotation B i, and for this reason, wherever 

 labour, market, capital, and housing facihties exist. 

 Rotation A, the purely tillage dairy farming rotation, 

 should be followed even on a holding of 50 acres in 

 extent. 



AN ALTERNATIVE ROTATION 



An alternative rotation (Rotation C) for either a 

 forty or fifty acre holding would be : — 



First year. — Summer-sown winter pasture. 



Second year. — Autumn-sown com. 



Third year. — Tares for soiling. Sown autumn 2nd 

 " year." 



Fourth year. — Tares for hay followed by winter 

 greens. 



Fifth year. — Potatoes and mangolds. 



Sixth year. — Tares for hay with seeds, and sainfoin. 



Seventh year. — Seeds and sainfoin for soiling. 



Eighth year. — Seeds and sainfoin for pasture. 



This rotation is really an extension of Rotation B i, 

 and is primarily intended for the smaU farmer who, 

 lacking sufficient labour to till all his holding, or who 

 cannot see his way for labour and other reasons to milk, 

 say, more than twenty dairy cows, is compelled to keep 

 more dry stock. 



The chief features of the rotation as compared with 

 the preceding ones are : — 



(i) Winter pasture provides succulent food for a 

 large portion of the winter, early spring, and following 

 summer, in fact up to the time when the land is tilled 

 for autumn -corn. The consumption on the land 

 of the winter pasture would leave the soil in a very 



