1 22 CROP GROWING AND CROP FEEDING 



crop for the wheat. In sections like Delaware, where winter oats can be suc- 

 cessfully grown, this plan will probably be a success ; as the winter oats should 

 there come off the first of July or earlier, and give plenty of time to make 

 a crop of peas, from the varieties, like the Warren Extra Early, which will 

 make a matured crop in 60 days from the sowing. The rotation would then 

 be, wheat, with a good application of acid phosphate and seeded to clover. 

 Clover mown twice, or once and pastured. Home-made manure hauled out 

 on the clover sod during the winter and all plowed under in the spring for 

 corn. Oats sown in September and followed by peas cut for hay, and stubble 

 prepared for wheat again, with acid phosphate. This will give two 

 nitrogenous forage crops every year and largely increase the feeding capacity 

 of the farm. 



In other sections, where the oats crop is of less importance, great success 

 has attended the use of a three year rotation of corn, wheat and clover, the 

 only fertilizer used being acid phosphate on the wheat, and an occasional 

 dressing of lime on the sod for corn. It may be argued that the corn stubble 

 is not the most favorable place for the wheat, and under former conditions 

 it was not. But where the farm is stocked to its full capacity for feeding 

 cattle, and a large amount of manure is made and applied broadcast to the 

 corn crop, the corn stubble, with the help of acid phosphate, is not an unde- 

 sirable place for the wheat crop ; as is evidenced by the regular increase in the 

 wheat crop where this rotation has been practiced. As in the three year rota- 

 tion with cotton, this can be best carried out with the aid of a permanent 

 pasture, and thus save all interior fences on the cultivated land. 



In all the rolling uplands of the Upper South, in North Carolina, South 

 Carolina and Georgia, there are elevated lands that the owners have persisted 

 in growing cotton upon which are naturally better adapted to wheat. Some 

 years ago, when traveling through the upper section of South Carolina on 

 the Southern Kailway, a gentleman, evidently a farmer, boarded the train, 

 and as I am always interested in talking with the farmers I picked up an 

 acquaintance with him and made some inquiries about the country through 

 which we were traveling, between Spartanburg and Atlanta. I found that 

 my friend was an intelligent farmer, who had come there from a wheat grow- 

 ing section in the North and had been farming for a number of years in this 

 Piedmont section. He said that having been a wheat grower all his life, he 

 determined to continue to grow wheat and clover, as he could not see why 

 they should not thrive in that elevated and beautiful section. He said that 

 the first year when he sowed wheat he was laughed at, and told that wheat 

 would not make much of a crop there. He made, the first year, only 6 

 bushels of wheat per acre, but as his land was in a badly run down condition 



