. A guide to the experimental farms and stations ... Fourth Year.—Timothy hay. Rotation P.—4 Year. Deep ploughing; plough, August, 7 inches deep; manure15 to 20 tons per acre; work with cultivator at ploughed late autumn, 7 inches; roots or corn next spring. Second, third and fourth years. Same as rotation S. dominion expekimental farms 23 Rotation —3 Year. Same as Rotation E, but all crops cut and used for soiling. Rotation X—4 Year. Same as Rotation C Barnyard manure applied, 15 tonsper acre. Rotation Y—4 Year. Same as Rotation X, but no barnyard manure, the samebeing repla
. A guide to the experimental farms and stations ... Fourth Year.—Timothy hay. Rotation P.—4 Year. Deep ploughing; plough, August, 7 inches deep; manure15 to 20 tons per acre; work with cultivator at ploughed late autumn, 7 inches; roots or corn next spring. Second, third and fourth years. Same as rotation S. dominion expekimental farms 23 Rotation —3 Year. Same as Rotation E, but all crops cut and used for soiling. Rotation X—4 Year. Same as Rotation C Barnyard manure applied, 15 tonsper acre. Rotation Y—4 Year. Same as Rotation X, but no barnyard manure, the samebeing replaced by commercial fertilizers; 100 lbs. nitrate ofsoda per acre each spring, with the additional application of75 lbs. muriate of potash and 300 lbs. superphosphate when inroots or corn. Rotation Z.—4 Year. Same as Rotation X, with only half as much barnyardmanure but with the same amount of nitrate of soda, half asmuch muriate o potash (37^ lbs.) and half as much super-phosphate (150 lbs.) as Rotation Y. 24 DOMINION EXPERIMENTAL FARMS. Central- Expefiihe«talBvfim- — DTTffVm— DOMINION EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 25
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