PASTURING AND SOILING 



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nianag-ement have fully demonstrated. The worst diffi- 

 culty arises from the habit of the farm boys to see things 

 only as the}- have been before their eyes from birth, and 

 with the fathers there is even more difficulty. Instead 

 of the present lack of system in crop rotation, formal 

 plans ma}' be devised, permitting the fields to be managed 

 systematically. 



"The problem is simplified by a chart in which each 

 year's crops are shown on each field, which has a given 

 number or name. Thus, in Table I herewith, the upper 



TABLE I — FOUR-YEAR ROTATION FOR HOG PASTURAGE 



left-hand square or section represents Field A, and 

 the word 'wheat' shows that this field is seeded to 

 wheat in 1903 (the first year), clover and timothy 

 being sown with the wheat. Next below is the same 

 field in 1904 (the second year of the rotation), when 

 there is clover pasturage ; following on the same field we 

 have in 1905 oats and peas pastured off and the land 

 seeded to rye; and in 1906 the rye is pastured off early, 

 a crop of corn pasture is grown, and. following this, rape 

 scetled with the corn makes some la<^e fall feed. 



