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by the pods turning yellow for ripening, and the stubble 

 well disked and again seeded to fall grain, which the fol- 

 lowing summer is again followed by peas for hay, and 

 the stubble disked and seeded to crimson clover, on which 

 the farm manure is to be again spread during the winter 

 and turned under for corn again in the spring. 



In this rotation we have an abundance of forage crops 

 for feeding and making manure, and if each pea crop is 

 dressed with 300 to 400 pounds per acre of the phosphoric 

 acid and potash mixture heretofore advised for wheat, 

 the forage will be greatly increased, and the means for 

 stock feeding also, so that a large amount of manure can 

 be raised on the balanced ration of the pea hay combined 

 with the com stover either used dry or as ensilage. In 

 the three-year rotation there will be two wheat crops, one 

 after corn and another after peas, which will usually be 

 the best one, and there will always be a green manure 

 crop for the corn. It will be seen that in these rotations 

 there is no purchase of artificial nitrogen, and in any 

 grain or cotton farming the peas and clover will furnish 

 all the nitrogen needed, and will thus make a great saving 

 in the purchase of fertiHzers. 



The need of an improving rotation of 



A Rotation crops is greater perhaps in the cotton belt 

 for an Upland . 



Cotton Farm ^^^^ ^^ ^^7 other section of the country. 

 The practice of planting cotton year after 

 year on the same land, and depending on complete com- 

 mercial fertilizers only for the making of a crop, has re- 

 sulted disastrously all over the Southern uplands. The 

 soil, deprived of humus and plowed very shallowly with 

 one-mule plows, has washed into gullies, and with the shal- 



