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second crop containing the seed, and if your land is clean 

 of weeds you can keep it so better by sowing clover seed 

 of your own growth than by buying it and getting other 

 people's weeds. This completes the rotation, and you 

 now have a clover sod on which to haul and spread ma- 

 nure as fast as made until spring, when it should again be 

 turned for corn and the rotation repeated. By practicing 

 this rotation, lands that formerly made ten bushels of 

 wheat and forty bushels of corn per acre now make forty 

 bushels of wheat and seventy-five bushels of com per acre. 

 In sections where the crop of Irish pota- 

 How this ^Qgg j^g^y ]^g made a profitable part of the 



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Be Varied farm croppmg, a part or even half the sod 



land devoted to com may be used for the 

 potato crop. If this is practiced, it will be better, on the 

 part used for the potatoes, not to apply the barnyard 

 manure, which is apt to encourage the scab, but to give 

 the potatoes a liberal dressing of acid phosphate and 

 muriate of potash, mixed as suggested for the wheat crop, 

 but in at least double the amount and mainly in the fur- 

 rows before planting, since the potato does not spread its 

 roots widely Hke the corn. This potato crop will put the 

 land in the best possible condition for the wheat crop fol- 

 lowing, and in the next round of the rotation the part of 

 the clover sod that was last plowed for potatoes should be 

 used for com, and in this way both com and potatoes will 

 come on the land but once in six years, and the manurial 

 needs of each will be best served. 



The idea in the above suggestions is to so arrange the 

 rotation that the wheat, which will be the main sale crop, 

 will have the best chance. Com, being a gross feeder, 



