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May 1, 190% 
THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 
Thus, we have the three-course rotation, 
into which three different crops enter, such 
as wheat, followed by clover, and the 
latter succeeded by potatoes. after which 
Wheat may again be grown. A four-course 
rotation may also be employed, althouzh 
the three-course is most common wherever 
rotation is practised. A good four-course 
rotation consists of wheat or rye followed 
by clover, then maize, to be followed by 
oats. As soon as the oats are harvested 
the ground should be got ready for the 
hext crop on the rotation. A five-course 
Totation would consist of maize, potatoes 
tye, and clover, or two or three years of 
lucerne, Where cotton is grown, a gocd 
rotation is maize the first year, oats and 
cow-peas the second, and cotton the third 
year. 
It should’ be observed, however, that 
the rotation to be followed on different 
farms will necessarily vary with the nature 
of the soil, the seasons, the markets &., so 
that no one hard-and-fast system can be 
given which will serve as a guide to all 
farms. Some of the general principles 
that should guide in laying out a Shs 
atic rotation are as follows:— 
1. Have at least one leguminouscrop 
in the rotation. 
2. Have at least one 
crop, 
cultivated 
8. Rotate shallow-rooting crops with 
deep-rooting crops. 
4. On leachy soils, ‘have a growing 
Crop on the land all the time. 
5, Avoid bare summer fallowing. 
6. Do not rotate small cereals with 
other small cereals. 
7, Plan the rotation so as to have 
about the same amount of forage every 
Year, 
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8 Keep stock on the farm. 
9 Use the farmyard manure thus 
made—unless it be thoroughly rotted—to 
the rank-growing crop in the rotation, 
such as maize, 
‘Queensland Agricultural Journal.’ 
The Country Land Boom. 
The rise in the value of farming-landg 
during the past few years has been re 
markable, and the ‘ retired farmer’ is now 
a personage frequently met with, not only 
as a resident of Adelaide and suburbs but 
also of country towns. Fertilizers and 
good seasons are the usual explanations 
of the boom, and no doubt this view is 
correct, for there has been little if any 
increase in the value of town properties, 
in spite of the increased demand for 
dwelling houses. A few instances of the 
rise in country lands will be of interest to 
our readers:— Hundred of Booyoolie. 600 
acres, sold thirty years ago for £2 10s. per 
acre; fifteen years later for £4 7s. 6d.; and 
this year half the property has been sold 
at £25 per acre. 
due to the whole of the land growing fine 
Farms on the Gul- 
nare Plains have changed hands recently 
at £9 to £10 per acre, and about Laura 
and Jamestown at £7 to £8. Another 
farm with 700 acres of rather poor soil in 
the Hundred of Booyoolie wae originally 
selected at 25s. per acre, afterwards sold 
for £2, and about a month ago for £7 5s, 
These are merely typical in- 
This very high price is 
crops of lucerne, 
stances, the increases being perhaps most 
marked in the ‘ Northern Areas,’ but the 
same results are visible on York Peninsula 
in all the well-watered land eastward of 
the Hummocks towards the Burra and 
Kapunda, and southwards towards Gawler 
and the city. All these high prices are 
indicative of solid agricultural prosperity 
but it is probable that in some instances 
buyers have gone beyond the values. 
which are justified from a strictly com- 
mercial point of view. 
S.A. ‘Journal of Agriculture,’ 
Miscellaneous Items. 
From ripened maize stalks are now 
obtained cellulose, celluloid, smokeless 
gunpowder, lacquer, roofing cloth, and a. 
substance equal to papier mache. 
Asa general rule potatoes are fit to 
dig when the haulms wither and die off, 
yet there are occasions when that is not 
a true test, due largely to climatic 
changes. 
The rapid advance made in motor 
cultivation and motor harvesting oper. 
ations brings within the range of practicay 
operation the adoption of motor 
machinery in our agricultural areas. 
No hay has a higher feeding value than 
lucerne, Ii can be so easily baled and so 
expeditiously transported that it has 
numerous recommendations not held by 
other crops. 
No animal of the farm will stand as. 
poor treatment as the pig and thrive as 
well, It can be said with the same degree. 
of truth that no animal will respond 
more quickly under good treatment. 
No incident in the growing and breed- 
ing of farm animals demands an exercise 
of discriminating judgment and _ skill 
than the judicious breeding of a flock of 
sheep. 
ARAB COFFEE 
DELICIOWS AROMA. 
