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should be furnished by the soy beans or cowpeas, the elover and the 

 rougage, or stable manure if erops are fed, and the manure saved and 

 applied back on the land or the crops are plowed directly into the soil 

 after maturity. The nitrate might be entirely dispensed with. The 

 application of rock phosphate and lime should be made every four or 

 five years. Live-stock farming in connection with this rotation might 

 help in improving the productivity of these soils. 



FOUR-YEAK ROTATIONS 



A good four-year rotation is the same as the above, with oats and soy- 

 beans or cowpeas following corn the second year. 



Other four-year rotations which could be adopted in this county are: 



First Year — Corn. 



Second Year — Crimson clover and cowpeas or soybeans. 



Third Year — Wheat or oats, red clover. 



Fourth Year — Red Clover. 



Or for sections of the county in which cotton is grown, one similar to 

 this might be used : ^ 



First Year — Corn. 



Second Year — Wheat or oats, red clover. 



Third Year — Red clover. 



Fourth Year — Cotton, rye. 



A similar method of fertilization should be adopted, with these four- 

 year rotations as is given for the three-year rotation. 



FIVE- OR SIX-YEAR ROTATIONS 



Any of these rotations, with two years of pasture added, would make 

 them even better adapted to live-stock farming. Where it is desired to 

 grow cotton, the following six-year rotation should, under an intelligent 

 supplemental system of fertilization and proper cultivation, give good 

 results : 



First Year — Corn, with cowpeas in the row or sown broadcast just be- 

 fore the last cultivation. 



Second Year — Cotton, with rye sown broadcast in the cotton after the 

 first picking and covered with a harrow or light cultivator. 



Third Year — Rye plowed under, cowpeas, wheat or oats. 



Fourth Year — Wheat or oats, red clover. 



Fifth Year — Red clover. 



The fertilizer here, too, would be similar to that indicated above for 

 a three-year rotation. 



