26 The Bulletin. 



Four Years. 



First Year : Tobacco. 



Second Year: Oats, followed with peas, plow deep in fall and 

 sow crimson clover, vetch, rye, or oats for winter cover. 



Third Year: Corn with peas, and rye as cover crop. 



Fourth Year: Cotton, with rye as cover crop for tobacco. 



The more legume crops grown in a rotation the belter, and if some 

 such system of rotation is adopted as suggested above and deep fall 

 plowing, thorough tillage and good cultivation methods are practiced, 

 and good seed are planted, and fertilizers used judiciously, and all 

 farm manures saved and applied to the soil, a minimum yield of a 

 bale of cotton, forty to fifty bushels of corn, forty to fifty bushels of 

 oats, and a corresponding increase in all other crops grown, is not 

 only a possibility, but is practically certain, as has been demonstrated 

 by good farmers in all sections. 



For badly run-do^vn soils that are void of vegetable matter and 

 their cultivation no longer profitable and their reclamation desired, 

 it has been suggested that the land be plowed at the ordinary depth 

 in the fall and sowed to rye, using two or three hundred pounds of 

 a good fertilizer per acre, to aid in getting a good growth of rye, 

 turn the rye in spring when in full bloom, sow an early variety of 

 cowpeas early in June and disc in August and sow to buckwheat, 

 plow deep in fall and sow to rye, to be turned in spring. In this 

 manner much vegetable matter will be incorporated with the soil 

 and will be in condition for cultivated crops, and when farmed in 

 good rotation the productive power of the soil will increase annually. 



