196 Practical Farming 



perience of those who have been induced to try a rotation 

 for cotton. 



In the great wheat-growing sections of the Middle States 

 red clover will be the crop that is manured and turned 

 for corn, and the wheat should follow the corn, the land 

 being prepared with the cutaway and not replowed and 

 the same fertihzer mixture applied to the wheat. Then 

 instead of fifteen to twenty bushels of wheat per acre, the 

 farmer would soon find that forty bushels can easily be 

 made in a favorable season. 



This would eliminate the oats crop preceding wheat 

 which is a common practice in Pennsylvania. Two small- 

 grain crops succeeding each other will never result in large 

 crops of wheat, and where the wheat is the money crop 

 the oats crop should be eliminated or confined to the 

 shock rows where the com stood at wheat seeding time, 

 where enough oats for the use of the farm can be pro- 

 duced. 



What we are trying to show to the student is that the 

 great deficiency of most of our old soils is in phosphoric 

 acid especially and in most of them in potash, too, and 

 that if these are hberally suppHed and the legume crops 

 used as they should be, the fertihty of the soil can be in- 

 creased and the crops increased without buying nitrogen 

 in any form, and that through the growing of these legume 

 crops, and the making of Hberal suppHes of forage the 

 farmer will not need to buy any artificial fertihzer for his 

 com or other hoed crops. 



In fact, it has been shown in our own experiments and 

 in those made at experiment stations in various states, 

 that a complete commercial mixture of fertilizers never 



