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which is applied to the corn crop, from the thorough intermixture 

 which it undergoes with the soil during the cultivation of this and 

 the following crop of barley, is more beneficial to the wheat the third 

 year, than if the whole of it were directly applied to the wheat. The 

 crops on this farm have averaged for several years past, as follows : 



Wheat, 20 bushels per acre ; corn, 50 ; ruta-bagas 600 to 700 ; 

 barley, 35 ; hay, 2 tons. 



This course is well adapted to most of our fertile wheat producing 

 regions ; slight variations, of course, being made, according to cir- 

 cumstances. The principal objection is the frequent recurrence of the 

 wheat crop, which would be remedied by suffering the clover and 

 grass to remain for two or more years, instead of one, before break- 

 ing up for wheat, introducing summer fallow if necessary. This 

 change would also admit of a greater number of live stock, and of a 

 consequent increase of manure. 



The following excellent course was given by Willis Gaylord, in 

 his essay on Farm Management, and adapted to a farm of eight 

 fields : 



1st year — ^Wheat, with clover seed. 



2d year — Pasture ; 



3d year — Meadow. 



4th year — Fallow. 



5th year — Wheat. 



6th year — Oats and barley with clover seed. 



7th year — Pasture. ' 



8th year — Corn and roots with manure. 

 Thus, if each field contained ten acres, there would be each year 

 twenty acres of wheat, twenty in pasture, ten in meadow, ten in sum- 

 mer fallow, ten in oats and barley, and ten in corn and roots. The 

 chief objection is, that as there are only ten acres of meadow, there 

 would be hardly enough dry fodder for the domestic animals which 

 twenty acres of pasture, besides stubble and summer fallow, would sup- 

 port, more especially in our long winters, where for nearly six months 

 green food cannot be had. A large quantity of roots would of course, 

 greatly lessen the diflficulty. With a more southern region the ob- 

 jection would not exist. 



An interesting example is given in the Farmer's Cabinet of very 

 successful farming connected with regular rotation. An old, practi- 

 cal, hard working farmer, commmenced the world as a day laborer, 



