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in corn in late summer). 2. Clover (volunteer crop plowed under 

 in autumn). 3. Winter wheat (seeded to clover and timothy). 

 4. Hay. 



B 1. Corn (winter wheat sown in the fall). 2. Winter wheat 

 (cowpeas for green-manuring). 3. Winter wheat (clover). 4. 

 Hay or pasture. 



C 1. Tobacco. 2. Winter wheat (clover). 3. Clover. 4. 

 Corn with cowpeas. 



D 1. Corn with cowpeas (winter oats). 2. Oats (clover). 

 3. Clover. 4. Potatoes (a green-manuring crop sown). 



E 1. Cotton (vetch for winter cover crop or cowpeas). 2. 

 Corn with cowpeas between rows. 3. Peanuts. 



For the third year in this rotation (E) oats and vetch may be 

 grown for a winter crop and cowpeas for the summer crop. 



FIG. 179. The South is for cotton. 



FIG. 180. Where corn is grown. 



F 1. Cotton. 2. Oats and vetch; cowpeas. 3. Cotton; 

 vetch for winter cover crop. 4. Corn, with cowpeas between rows. 



Rotations in the South Central States. This group of states 

 includes Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, 

 Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas. 



Important Crops. These are named in the order of their impor- 

 tance on the basis of acreage: Cotton (Fig. 179), corn, oats, winter 

 wheat, hay, rice, tobacco (Fig. 174), sweet potatoes, sugar cane, 

 rye and barley. 



Important Legumes. Japan clover (lespedeza), cowpeas, velvet 

 bean, crimson clover, vetches, soybeans, medium red clover, 

 alfalfa, and alsike clover. 



Rotations. A 1. Corn (Fig. 180) (cowpeas sown at last 

 cultivation and plowed under). 2. Oats or rye (stubble plowed in 

 summer, followed by cowpeas for feed) . 3 % Cotton (cowpeas, vetch 

 or crimson clover sown between rows). 



B 1. Cotton (cotton stalks plowed under early and winter 

 wheat sown). 2. Wheat, followed by cowpeas or soybeans for 



