THE ROTATION OF CROPS 



with a four-course rotation of maize, oats, 

 wheat, clover and timothy, one-fourth the 

 area would produce hay; while with a six- 

 course rotation, composed of maize, oats, 

 wheat, each one year, and hay three years, 

 one-half the area would produce hay. If it 

 is desired to still further reduce the area in 

 oats and wheat, a seven-course rotation could 

 be arranged with maize, two years in suc- 

 cession. This is the rotation that would be 

 desirable for a dairy farm where it is 

 planned to keep as many cows as practicable 

 and to buy the concentrates largely. Either 

 the wheat or the oats could be taken out of 

 this rotation if either the one or the other 

 were thought undesirable and a still greater 

 amount of roughage desired. 



On the other hand, there are places where 

 the minimum amount of roughage is 

 wanted. There are certain sections of the 

 central West where it is possible to sow 

 oats on corn stubble without plowing and 

 where occasionally a rotation is practiced of 

 maize, oats and mammoth clover. The 

 clover is plowed for maize, the oats are 

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