Identifier: journalofdepartm10vict (find matches)
Title: The Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Victoria
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Victoria. Dept. of Agriculture
Subjects: Agriculture Agriculture -- Australia Victoria
Publisher: (Melbourne): Dept. of Agriculture, Victoria
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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extended by interposingtwo years of grazing between each successive round of wheat crops. Therotation is thus a five years course, comprising i, wheat; 2, oats; 3,grazing; 4, grazing; 5, fallow; 6, wheat; i.e., one wheat crop infive years. In other cases, two wheat crops were taken off in succession, thusnecessitating one wheat crop being placed on stubble land—a very riskypractice in a dry season—and the rotation then worked out as follows :—I, wheat; 2, wheat; 3, oats; 4, grazing; 5, grazing; 6, fallow. Whatever may be the merits of these various practices, it must beclearly apparent that they may only be profitably practised when landvalues are comparatively low, and when each individual holder has arelatively large area of land. With a considerable rise in the price ofland, and the inevitable increase of population that mu.st be ahead ofVictoria, these practices must undergo considerable modification in favour )7862. B 34 Jonnial of .\gri culture ,\ tetania. (lo Jan.. rgr:*.
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of rotations whichwill yield highernet returns peracre. Indeed, thetime will soon come—if prices for landincrease at a rateeven approximatingthat of the last de-cade—before thosewho are now prac-tising such rotationswill find it moreprofitable to selltheir land and in-vest the money atfixed deposit ratherthan continue asvstem of rotationliy which only onecrop of importanceis obtained in fouror five vears. Inthis connexion, sys-tematic and con-tinued experimentalwork, having forits object the test-ing of every pos-sible rotation likelyto be suitable tothe Wimmera dis-trict, would be ofinvaluable serviceto the primary pro-ducers of the dis-trict. Some of thefarmers of the dis-trict have been ex-perimenting in thisdirection, but itmust be recognizedthat the scope ofany experimentalwork that may becarried out on aprivate farm underordinary conditionsis verv strictly lim-ited. The Man on theLand, though hemay have the in- lo Jan., 1912.) A7//7/ Farm Comfctitiojis. iqi 1. 35 cliiation a

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