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Show SOME BENEFITS OF ROTATION rVhole Food Supply of Soil la Utilised and Valuable Organic Matter la Maintained. Advantages connected with the idoptlon of rotation are: 1. Tbe whole food aupply of the toll can be ntfllaed. This la net possible pos-sible when only one crop la grewn, for tome crops feed only In tbe surface sur-face soil, leaving store of food deeper deep-er In the aell untouched. 2. The amount ef valuable erganle matter In the soil can be maintained .nd even Increased. S. The free nitrogen of tbe air eta be made uae of. 4. Insect, fungua and weed peeta can be destroyed or controlled. 5. Provision can be made for the economical distribution of labor throughout the year. The rotation suitable for the wheat farmer va one In which wheat la grown alternately with a fodder crop. This Implies wheat growing combined com-bined with stock raising. On small holdings In moat districts of twenty Inches rainfall and over this may be so arranged that a crop It grown each year. Rucb a plan, however, bat the dlaadvantage of entailing that ome of the land be prepared In great j baste and possibly at an unsuitable i time. |
