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oats, followed by peas after harvest and stubble prepared 

 for wheat; peas to follow wheat and mown for hay, and 

 crimson clover sown on the stubble, and then the clover 

 turned for cotton among which at last working the crimson 

 clover is again sown, and then back to corn. This will 

 make a four-year rotation in which the legumes come in 

 every year. 



Beginning with com, properly bred for closer planting, 

 on a clover sod that has received during the fall and winter 

 all the manure made from feeding the. pea hay and com 

 stover, we will sow just before the last level cultivation, 

 one bushel of cow peas per acre. The com will be cut 

 and shocked to cure and the stover shredded for feeding. 

 The corn stubble and peas will be thoroughly chopped up 

 with the cutaway harrow, and oats sown in open furrows 

 as a winter protection, and after the shocks of com are 

 removed the shock rows also sown in oats. The oats can 

 be allowed to ripen and be harvested as grain or can be 

 cut green and used as hay, and the land at once plowed 

 thoroughly and a liberal amount of the mixture of acid 

 phosphate and muriate of potash mixed five parts of the 

 first to one of the latter, well harrowed in and one to one 

 and a half bushels of peas sown. 



These are to be harvested and cured for hay in Sep- 

 tember or October, and the pea stubble at once disked 

 thoroughly and made as fine as possible without replow- 

 ing, and wheat sown after the first white frost, using five 

 to six pecks per acre, gradually reducing the amount of 

 seed as the soil increases in fertihty. 



Following this crop of wheat, plow and prepare the land 

 again for peas and harrow in 300 pounds per acre of the 



