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"This rotation has given very good results at Brandon. 

 Not only does it provide for the maintenance of the soil, 

 but it is giving greater returns at present than either 

 rotation "E" or "D". The average profit of this rota- 

 tion for the five years— 1914^1918— was 81 per cent, 

 greater than that obtained from "E" the straight grain 

 growing rotation. 



156. "The Most Profitahle Rotation at Brandon.* :— 



Rotation "G":— 



1st year — "Wheat. 



2nd year — Wheat. 



3rd year — Oats or barley. 



4th year — Hay (clover and grass). 



5th year — Pasture. 



6th year — Corn. 

 "This rotation is somewhat similar in character to the 

 last one. It includes the same kinds of crops, but 

 changes the order somewhat, the wheat coming after the 

 corn instead of after the hay and the coarse grain crop 

 following the wheat instead of coming after the corn. 

 This arrangement makes an excellent and extremely 

 profitable wheat crop, but it gives less suitable condi- 

 tions for seeding down. It gives better conditions for 

 corn (on sod) than the other where the corn follows the 

 wheat. It has a year of pasture and in that differs from 



•Writing of this rotation at the Scott Experimental Farm in 

 Western Saskatchewan, Superintendent Tinline says: "While the 

 profits from the hay are not large, and the pasture barely pays 

 expenses, yet the increased profits from the succeeding grain 

 crops, topjether with the decreased cost of. keeping weeds under 

 control, has made this rotation unusually profitable. The aver- 

 age net profit for the past four years amounted to $7.88 per 

 acre as compared with $5.46 from the grain rotation — fallow, 

 wheat, and wheat." 



