226 AMERICAN AGRICULTURE. 



illustration, and the guidance of such as may have little expe- 

 rience in rotation, some systems which have been pursued 

 with advantage in this country : 



1. On a grass sod broken up, with a heavy dressing of 

 barn yard manure, and muck, ashes, and lime if necessary. 

 First year, corn with gypsum scattered over the plants after 

 the first hoeing, which should be immediately after its mak- 

 ing its first appearance ; second year, roots with manure ; 

 third year, wheat if adapted to the soil; if not, then barley, rye, 

 or oats, with grass or clover seed or both ; fourth year, mea- 

 dow, which may be continued at pleasure, or till the grass 

 or clover gives way. The meadow may be followed by pas- 

 turing if desired. Clover alone should not remain over two 

 years as meadow, but for pasture it may be continued lon- 

 ger. 



2. First year, corn or roots on a grass or clover ley with 

 manure ; second, oats and clover, with a top dressing of 10 to 

 20 bushels of crushed bones per acre ; third, clover pastured 

 to last of June, then grown until fully matured in August, 

 when it is turned over, and a light dressing of compost and 

 40 to 80 bushels of leached ashes spread over it, and wheat 

 and timothy seed sown about 15th September. If desired, 

 the following spring, clover is sown and lightly harrowed. 

 This gives for the fourth year, wheat; fifth and sixth, and if 

 the grass continues good, the seventh year also, meadow. 



3. First, corn on a grass sod heavily manured, and a half 

 gill of ashes and gypsum mixed at the rate of two of the for- 

 mer to one of the latter put in the hill, and an equal quantity 

 of pure gypsum added after the corn is first hoed; second, 

 oats or barley, with lime at the rate of 20 or 80 bushels per 

 acre, sown broad-cast after the oats and harrowed in ; third, 

 peas or beans, removed early, and afterwards sown with 

 wheat ; fourth, wheat with a light top dressing of compost, 

 and saline manures in the spring, and clover, or grass and 

 clover seed ; fifth, two or three years in meadow and pasture. 



4. First, wheat on a grass sod ; second, clover ; third, 

 Indian corn, heavily manured ; fourth, barley or oats, with 

 grass or clover seed ; fifth, and following, grass or clover. 



5. A good rotation for light, sandy lands, is first, com 

 well manured and cut off early and removed from the ground, 

 which is immediately sown w r ith rye, or the rye hoed in be- 

 tween the hill ; second, rye with clover sown in the spring, 

 and gypsum added when fairly up ; third, clover cut for hay, 



