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wliich Avill pay in the following cotton crop. On tlie tliiu tobacco soils 

 in the wilt area, tobacco will do well .after cotton. 



Rotation 2. 



First year — Tobacco ; in fall oats and vetch or rye and vetch or crimson 

 clover, to be plowed under. 



Second year — Corn, rye, and vetch, crimson clover as a cover crop, plowed 

 under. 



Third year — Corn, rye in fall. 



Fourth year — Tobacco. 



Rotation 2 is objectionable because corn precedes tobacco, and usually 

 it is difficult to get tobacco to grow large enough after corn unless stable 

 manure can be used under the tobacco. Wire worms frequently cause 

 trouble, too, as they winter in the corn stubble. 



Rotation 3. 



First year — Tobacco, with fall-sown crimson clover or vetch. 

 Second year — Corn, followed by crimson clover or vetch. 

 Third year — Cotton, with fall-sown rye to be plowed under. 

 Fourth year — Tobacco. 



Rotation 3 is preferable to No. 2 as cotton precedes tobacco and is 

 not so exhaustive a crop as corn. Besides, this rotation gives two 

 money crops in three years. 



Rotation 4. 



First year — Tobacco, followed by Abruzzi I'ye, wheat or oats. 

 Second year — Soy beans, Abruzzi rye, wheat or oats (cowpeas). 

 Third year — Grass mixture.* 

 Fourth year — Grass mixture. 

 Fifth year — Tobacco. 



Rotation 5. 

 Fi7-st year — Tobacco. 



Second year — Grass mixture, sown in fall after tobacco. 

 Third year — Grass mixture ; break sod in fall or winter. 

 Fourth year — Cotton, with rye in fall. 

 Fifth year— Tobacco. 



Rotations Nos. 4 and 5 are excellent ones to use provided the land is 

 not badly infested with wilt. It must be remembered that in no case 

 where the land is badly wilt-infested, should tobacco be planted oftener 

 than once in five or six years. However, after the wilt has been reduced, 

 a somewhat shorter rotation may be used. 



•Italian rye grass 5 pounds 



Red top or herds' grass 5 pounds 



Orchard grass 5 pounds 



TaU meadow oat grass 5 pounds 



Red clover 6 pounds 



Alslke clover 4 pounds 



30 pounds 



