RESTORING WORN-OUT SOILS 139 
corn he knows would produce to your surprise and the 
surprise of your neighbors, and you would be well along 
on the highway of building up your soil. 
After the second crop of field corn the soil could be 
planted to wheat, followed with clover. 
If you do not live in the vicinity of a canning factory, 
then your first planting could be either cowpeas or hun- 
garian, but these crops should be turned under before 
the ripening of their seed, and the soil sown to rye or 
vetch; the author’s preference would be vetch. 
The following spring plow up and plant to field corn, 
the same at laying-by time to be planted either to vetch 
or rye, and the next season to be plowed up and put in 
corn, to be followed with wheat and clover, the clover 
to be plowed under. 
The author knows that this method of soil building 
will work grandly, for he has tried it. 
With this method the author can in two seasons grow 
from 50 to 100 bushels of corn to the acre on most any 
worn-out soils. 
On fairly good soils results will astonish you. 
If you wish to start alfalfa on a piece of worn soil, 
and live near a canning factory, sow to peas as directed 
and follow with sweet corn and vetch; keep off stock 
and plow under vetch before ripening of the seed, and 
keep cultivating your ground until middle of July or 
first of August and sow to alfalfa. Clip the alfalfa 
when five or six inches high, leaving clippings on the 
ground, and clip again before winter if growth should 
be considerable, or allow it to grow the first season with- 
out clipping. 
