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Soil. — Both the sandy 

 loam and clay loam are 

 ideal. Heavy clay, or 

 very light, sandy soil 

 are not satisfactory. 

 Clover or alfalfa sods 

 are desirable, but all 

 grass land infested with 

 white grubs or cut- 

 worms should be avoid- 

 ed. Land cropped the 

 previous season, left in 

 the rough over winter, 

 incorporated with suffi- 

 cient well-decayed hu- 

 mus, is most desirable. 

 For a late crop, the 

 sod should be clover, alfalfa, rye or some similar crop. The 

 soil should be moist when plowed, disked, if necessary, and the 

 land formed into a desirable seed bed. 



Fig. 31. — One seed jiotato was used for the pro- 

 duction of each plate. Seed (A) was selected 

 from a jioor hill and yielded only 1.1 pounds 

 or 56 bushels jjer acre. Seed (B) was from 

 a highly producing hill and gave 11.1 or 560 

 bushels per acre. Save the seed from the best 

 jjroducing hill. 



Relation op Rotation to Yield on 22S Farjis in Steuben County in 1912 



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