136 AGRICULTURE FOR COMMON SCHOOLS 



rows and cultivated largely by hand, and we could not get 

 laborers enough to manage so many as twenty or twenty-five 

 acres of turnips, nor could we dispose of the turnips after 

 they were raised. There would be no market for them and 

 few farmers would have enough live stock to eat them. The 

 Terry rotation is better. While it would require considerable 

 labor to handle twenty acres of potatoes, yet such a thing is 

 possible, and the clover and wheat can be easily handled. 

 All of these products would find a good market. The corn- 

 belt rotation is most popular, because the crops in it are easily 

 raised, find a ready market, and are well adapted to a wide 

 range of soils. A rotation of cotton, wheat, and clover would 

 not be profitable to farmers in the corn belt states, for the 

 climate is not right, and they could hardly get enough laborers 

 to pick the cotton. There are many kinds of rotations used, 

 but enough has been said to show what things need to be 

 taken into account in the choosing of a rotation. 



