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^Sorrei 

 CO/>N. 



Ciove/> 



fifMand 



OATS 



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CORN. 



/fye + SOY BE/INS. 



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PEASand 



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CORN. 



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St acres CORN 

 \aacres PEAS and 0/rrS 



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This rotation permits more rape to be growTi than is strictly needed, 

 but the extra quantity can be utiHzed by the pigs and calves. 



If the seeding of clover in the corn fails, sow winter wheat in half 

 of it in the autumn. Pasture this wheat down the next spring, and 

 follow it by sorghum for hog pasture, turning the hogs in on the 

 sorghum when it is about 18 inches high. The other half of the land 



should be planted to ^^■inter wheat in 

 the spring. This will furnish good 

 pasture for hogs throughout the 

 summer. 



These two rotations occupy 90 acres 

 of land, and furnish 12 acres of corn, 

 38 acres of hay, 5 acres of rape, and 

 all the pasture needed. There are 

 still needed 5 acres of com and 7 acres 

 of hav. Reserving 3 acres for the 

 farmstead, 10 acres on which to grow 

 these crops are left. The e\4dent solu- 

 tion of this problem lies in a two-field 

 rotation of com, 5 acres, followed by 

 a double crop of hay the next year. 

 Fortunately, the farm described in 

 Farmers' Bulletin No. 272 has sho%vn 

 tha^t soy beans are not only an excellent 

 hay crop in that section, but that they 

 may be planted as late as the last week 

 in June. This fact suggests rye as a 

 winter hay crop. Only 2 acres of this 

 need be used for hay, since only 7 

 acres of hay are needed and the soy 

 beans furnish 5 acres. The remaining 

 3 acres of rye will be convenient for 

 bedding. Accordingly, the following 

 two-year rotation was laid out for two 

 5-acre fields: First year, com, followed 

 by fall-sown rye; second year, rye, 

 followed by soy beans. 

 It now remains to fit these three rotations into the arable land. 

 Figure 2 shows the final result. This arrangement permits a single 

 road to reach every field on the farm. The peculiar outline of the 

 farm makes this road rather long, but it would be hard to avoid this 

 slight difficulty. 



Fields G, H, and I, figure 2, are to be devoted to the three-year rota- 

 tion consisting of 7 acres of corn and 18 acres of peas and oats the first 



TIMOTHY^aOVER 

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 TiMOTNr/aoYe/i. 



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2S acres. 



T/MOrNfandCLOVER. 

 TIMOTHY and CLOVER. 



\ 7 acres CORN 



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Fig. 2. — Final arrangement of the several 

 fields, showing the cropping system 

 recommended. 



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