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hay. 3. Corn and velvet beans (beans and corn stalks pastured 

 and turned in early spring for cotton). 



C 1. Corn with cowpeas (crimson clover for cover crop). 

 2. Soybeans or cowpeas (winter wheat sown in autumn). 3. 

 Wheat (clover). 4. Clover. 



D 1. Corn with cowpeas. 2. Cotton (cowpeas or clover). 

 E--1. Tobacco (rye for cover crop). 2. Corn. 3. Winter 

 wheat (seeded). 4. Blue grass (two years). 



F 1. Rice. 2. Rice. 3. Rice. 4. Fallow. 5. Corn and cowpeas. 

 G 1. Sugar cane. 2. Sugar cane. 3. Sugar cane. 4. Corn 

 (cowpeas for green-manuring). 



Rotation for the Pacific States. Important Crops. Hay, 

 wheat, barley, oats, sugar beets, potatoes, corn and rye. 



Legumes. Vetches, clovers, alfalfa 

 and peas. 



Some Common Rotations. A 1. 

 Clover. 2. Pasture. 3. Corn for silage. 

 4. Oats. 5. Wheat (seeded). 



Bl. Winter wheat. 2. Oats (vetch). 

 3. Vetch for hay. 4. Wheat (vetch for 



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FIO. 181. where most of the cover and green-manuring crop). 



sugar beets are grown. /-\ 1 T i / i L i \ 



C 1. Barley (clover or vetch). 

 2. Peas (fall wheat). 3. Winter wheat (clover). 4. Kafir corn. 



D 1. Sugar beets (Fig. 181) (winter vetch). 2. Vetch crop 

 plowed under, potatoes. 3. Barley (may be followed by alfalfa). 



Rotations for Truck Farming and Vegetable Growing. Rota- 

 tions for truck farming and gardening have not been definitely 

 determined. It is generally recognized that truck crops and 

 vegetables are grown most successfully in rotation with clover or 

 some other legume. In general, root crops should follow non-root 

 crops, and legumes should follow non-legumes. Crops such as 

 cabbage and sugar beets are best grown in rotation with common 

 field crops. Wheat-clover-melons, or wheat-clover-corn-melons, 

 are rotations well adapted for melons where wheat may be grown. 

 Corn-cowpeas-muskmelons (heavily manured) is a rotation recom- 

 mended for muskmelons. Some Eastern truck growers grow sweet 

 corn and cabbage, followed by grain, then clover. 



In vegetable gardening particular attention should be given 

 to succession 4 and rotation of crops. Through succession of crops 



4 In gardening, succession of crops means following one crop with another 

 of the same season, while rotation means changing the crop on a given piece 

 in land from season to season. 



