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II. What Can Be Successfully Used or Sold? 



This is another question to be considered in 

 selecting the course in rotation. The answer 

 to this question will depend upon the farmer's 

 facilities for keeping and feeding certain kinds 

 of stock, or upon the location as regards markets 

 for farm crops. 



A— BETTER DISTRIBUTION OF LABOR. 

 Rotation of farm crops not only makes better 

 farms, but it makes better men. In the great 

 grain districts the work requires many men for 

 a short time, and is much less to be desired than 

 to have several successive crops, which distribute 

 the labor throughout the year and enable it to 

 be done by a less number of men, thus making 

 homes and true civilization possible.* A few 

 courses in rotation are suggested below. 



7r._sUGGESTED COURSES IN ROTATION. 



1. Clover, corn, oats, and wheat. 



2. Clover, corn, potatoes, and wheat. 



3. Clover, corn, and wheat. 



4. Clover and timothy, mixed, two years, corn, 

 wheat, and cow-peas. 



5. Cow-peas or clover, cotton, and wheat. 



6. Peanuts, cotton, and wheat. 



7. For soiling crops : Rye, soy-beans, winter 

 wheat, and clover. 



Roberts' The Fertility of the Land, p. 369. 



