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"E", but has this difference, that once in four years an 

 application of manure is given, This manure should 

 help to keep the soil from less rapid exhaustion than 

 where there is none applied. However, in the actual re- 

 sults at Brandon the increased returns from the manure 

 have not as yet been sufficiently great to pay for the 

 cost of application. It is expected that greater com- 

 parative returns from the manure will be obtained after 

 the cumulative results of longer application are felt. 



155. "A Well Balanced Kotation. — 

 Rotation "F" :— 

 1st year — Wheat. 

 2nd year — Wheat. 

 3rd year — Corn. 

 4th year— Oats or barley (seeded 



down). 

 5th year — Hay (clover and grasses). 



"This rotation fills the requirements as v/ell as any for 

 Manitoba conditions. Two crops of wheat and one of 

 oats or barley place a good, proportion (three-fifths) 

 of the land in grain, which is the cash crop of Manitoba. 

 The year of corn provides a cleaning season and also a 

 large amount of fodder. The year of hay adds to the 

 fodder supply and includes a leguminous crop. The hay 

 land plowed in July and well cultivated makes a very 

 good preparation for wheat. The corn land makes a 

 good preparation for oats or barley and also for the 

 grass seed sown with these crops. The proportion of 

 corn is too large for most Manitoba farms, but this could 

 be reduced in actual practice by having the field partly 

 in corn and partly in summerfallow. Manure is ap- 

 plied before the corn crop in this rotation. 



