RESTORING WORN-OUT SOILS I4I 
with vetch, rye or clover, even if same field is to be put 
in corn the next season. 
If wheat ground is to be followed with corn, the same 
should be disced or broken immediately after wheat is 
removed and sown to vetch or rye, the same to be 
plowed under in the spring. 
By following this plan you gain the advantage of 
tillage, soil covering, and getting organic matter in the 
soil. 
The author’s secret in restoring his “ Vetchfalfa 
Farm” lies in the fact that he has each and every year 
produced and plowed under large crops of organic mat- 
ter. He has never allowed any of his corn fields to be 
pastured and has always sown them to vetch or rye after 
the corn was laid by, and then the following spring 
plowed under the cornstalks, rye and vetch. He has 
banished timothy from the farm and grown alfalfa and 
hungarian for hay. He has also plowed under hun- 
garian and above all he has spared the match and plowed 
under every weed that escaped cultivation and every 
cornstalk grown on the farm — this, supplemented with 
an abundance of green manuring, soil covering and some 
manure, has so restored the soil of this farm that it 
produces bumper crops of corn, potatoes and any crop 
the author wishes to grow upon it. 
