24 The Bulletin. 



japan clover. 



This little plant is the hardiest of all the clovers. It grows along 

 the roadsides, in old fields, and almost anywhere except in dense 

 woods. With lis it is not a hay plant, but furnishes good pasturage 

 and its growth should be encouraged. It is a fine soil improver. 



SUGGESTED ROTATIONS FOR CROPS. 



No one system of rotation is suitable to all sections. It may be 

 necessary to have a different system for each field on the farm. This 

 is best determined by the individual farmer himself, and the fol- 

 lowing suggestions are merely to assist in establishing a system for 

 the entire farm. 



COTTON DISTRICT. 



Three Year Rotation. 



First Year: Cotton, followed by crimson clover, vetch or burr 

 clover, sowed at last cultivation of cotton or after first picking, and 

 until inoculation is secured for clover or vetch, rye or oats should 

 be sowed with the clover or vetch. 



Second Year : Corn with cowpeas or soy beans. 



Third Year: Wheat or oats, followed by peas or soy beans. If 

 oats are sown and it is desired to make hay of them, crimson clover 

 or vetch should be so^^m with them and the quantity of hay will be 

 increased and the quality improved, and nitrogen deposited in the 

 soil, and if followed by peas and fertilized with acid phosphate and 

 potash, three or four hundred pounds per acre analyzing 8-4 or 

 10-2 as the character of the soil may demand, two good crops of 

 hay can be secured in the same season, worth from fifty to seventy- 

 five dollars if it had to be purchased on the market. . The pea stubble 

 should be turned deeply in the fall and rye, oats or crimson clover 

 sown to be disked in spring as has already been suggested for cotton. 



If it is desired to turn under the peavines to add vegetable matter 

 and still further improve the soil, there is no objection, but if the 

 crop is very heavy it will be advisable to disc well before plowing 

 so as to thoroughly incorporate the vegetable matter with the soil 

 and thus improve the condition for the growth of a winter cover 

 crop, which will prevent leaching and surface washing. This rota- 

 tion gives an opportunity of doing deep fall plowing once in three 

 years and is a desirable one whenever it is practicable to follow it. 



Two Years. 

 First Year: Cotton. 



Sticond Year: Wheat or oats, followed by peas, plowed deep in 

 fall, cover crop put on and back to cotton. 



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