Receipts:
| 46¾ bushels @ $1.25 | $58.43 | |
2,715 lbs. straw @ $4. per ton | 5.43 | |
| $63.86 | ||
Putting in the crop and harvesting | $11.00 | |
| Threshing 46¾ bushels @ 6 c | 2.80 | |
275 lbs. nitrate of soda @ 4 c | 11.00 | |
| 392 lbs. superphosphate @ 2 c | 7.84 | |
| $32.64 | ||
| Rent and profit | $31.22 | |
In ordinary farm practice, I feel sure we can do better than this. Growing barley year after year on the same land, is not the most economical way of getting the full value of the manure. There is much nitrogen and phosphoric acid left in the land, which barley or even wheat does not seem capable of taking up, but which would probably be of great benefit to the clover.
MANURE AND ROTATION OF CROPS.
The old notion that there is any real chemical necessity for a rotation of crops is unfounded. Wheat can be grown after wheat, and barley after barley, and corn after corn, provided we use the necessary manures and get the soil clean and in the right mechanical condition.
“What, then, do we gain by a rotation?” asked the Deacon.
Much every way. A good rotation enables us to clean the land. We can put in different crops at different seasons.
“So we could,” broke in the Deacon, “if we sowed wheat after wheat, barley after barley, and corn after corn.”
True, but if we sowed winter-wheat after winter-wheat, there would not be time enough to clean the land.