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and the wheat on the phosphoric acid ; and thus between 

 them they keep a fair balance. 



This is a good rotation one that I can not improve on, 

 perhaps, for onr circumstances ; and still there is just a pos- 

 sibility that I am growing clover too much. I see no trouble 

 as yet; but you notice clover is growing on the land two 

 seasons out of three one in the wheat. This maybe too 

 much. A four-year rotation might be better: under some 

 circumstances it would be. 



Now, of course, if one had some rough permanent pasture 

 he might keep sheep, say, or young cattle, that would not 

 take up his time in the summer ; cut and cure all the clover 

 that we let go back to the soil directly, and thus have some 

 work to do in the winter. If he will tend to the potatoes, 

 etc., most thoroughly, and keep the farm all up in nice 

 shape, and every thing in perfect repair, he will never lack 

 for work. Some think that, with so few crops, there would 

 not be enough to do. Well, ask my hired man. It is doing 

 a few things thoroughly well that will pay in the future : half 

 doing a great many things never will any more. The world 

 is running over full of ordinary plenty of room for experts, 

 however, in any line. 



Rotation for a Dairy Farm. 



Potato-growing and dairying will go fairly well together, 

 under some circumstances say when there is a father and a 

 grown son, one of whom can take charge of the dairying and 

 the other of the crops. This will give a chance for an excel- 

 lent four-year rotation. It would be this : 



1. Clover manured for corn. 



2. Corn for the silo, followed by rye. 



3. Potatoes on the rye sod. 



4. Wheat seeded with clover, and perhaps a little timothy. 

 In this case I would still use some manure, what might be 



needed, on the young clover after taking off the wheat, as 

 advised in chapter 2. This would be a perfectly safe rota- 



