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work be started with corn. Thus for the first year of work 

 there will be two alfalfa plots and two corn plots. When the 

 rotation is completed in two plots it is moved to the other 

 plots, and the plots used for the rotation are seeded with 

 alfalfa. The project is adapted for use in almost any section 

 where limestone and phosphate may be procured. Necessarily 

 this project requires several years of time and a continuous 

 policy of management. 



THE PLAN 



1. Seeding alfalfa. The alfalfa may be sown in the spring 

 with a nurse crop of oats or barley, or the ground may be 

 plowed and cultivated until June, when the alfalfa may be 

 sown. Another plan is to sow winter rye in the spring as a 

 nurse crop. This ceases to grow after a time and the alfalfa 

 gets ahead of it. Another advantage of this latter plan is the 

 fact that if the first stand is lost, the alfalfa and nurse crop 

 may be plowed up in May and the alfalfa reseeded alone in 

 June. 



2. Preparation and treatment. Farm manure and steamed 

 bone-meal or rock phosphate are applied before plowing, 

 disked in, and plowed under. 



3. Limestone. This should be applied after plowing, and 

 worked into the surface soil by disking and harrowing before 

 seeding the alfalfa or planting the corn. 



4. Amounts to apply. 



Farm Manure 10 tons per acre 



Steamed Bone-meal 1 ton per acre or 



Rock Phosphate 2 tons per acre 



Limestone . . 5 tons per acre 



