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DAIRY FARM ROTATIONS IX MANITOBA, SASKATCHEWAN AND ALBERTA. 



In Manitoba a rotation that has given good results on the Experi- 

 mental Farm at Brandon and at various other points and one that 

 appears to the writer to be fairly suitable for dairy farming is as 

 follows : 



1st year. Corn or roots. Disc after harvesting. Do not plough. 



2nd year. Wheat. Double disc stubble at harvesting, Disc 

 seed in next spring. 



3rd year. Wheat or coarse grain; again double disc stubble. 

 Plough 6 inches September or October. 



4th year. Coarse grain seeded down 10 Ibs. timothy, 10 Ibs. 

 clover. 



5th year. Hay. 



6th year. PaskKre. Plough shallow (3 inches) and pack in 

 July. Work at intervals. Plough deeper (6 inches) in October. 

 Manure on surface; work in with disc and drag harrow. 



This rotation does away with the summer-fallow. It is some- 

 times hard to get a catch of grass and clover. Great care must be 

 exercised to see that all cultural operations are properly performed. 



SASKATCHEWAN. 



In Saskatchewan we have not yet sufficient information available 

 to permit even suggesting a probably suitable rotation. Our trials 

 have, however, shown that it is possible to grow red clover, alsike, 

 alfalfa, and corn, turnips, mangels, sugar beets, and a great variety 

 of grasses over a very large part of this province, and this fact is 

 significant of the tremendous possibilities of the prairies as live stock 

 districts and more particularly as areas where the dairying industry 

 may be expected to prove eminently practicable and highly profitable. 



ALBERTA. 



In Alberta the irrigated areas in the south with their abundant 

 root and alfalfa crops provide such forage as cannot be surpassed for 

 milk production. In the central parts of the province, the abundant 

 grass, the rolling plain diversified with park and dale, make ideal 

 paslruire lands for dairy cattle. The forage crops possible of culti- 

 vation include alfalfa, roots and corn, hence everything points to 

 this province becoming more and more interested in live stock 

 generally and in milk production in particular. 



