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suggestions will suffice. The rotation for the Southern 

 States must necessarily be different from that of the 

 Northern States, or the States where cotton does not 

 grow. We will, therefore, begin by stating our plan for 

 -, the South. If the soil be entirely new, i. e. just cleared 

 of the forest, let the first crop be corn ; the second may 

 be potatoes or cotton ; the third, wheat, oats; rye, or 

 barley ; the fourth, stock peas or clover ; the fifth, rest ; 

 then corn again, etc. 



If the soil be old, worn land, then begin with stock 

 pea, sown broadcast, or oats and clover sown together, or 

 rye, sown very thick. In either case, turn under the 

 crop, or permit it to die -down on the surface. The sec- 

 ond year, plant cotton, using commercial fertilizers upon 

 it. The third year, sow oats, followed soon after these 

 are harvested, with, stock peas. The fourth year, plant 

 corn, followed in September of the same year with oats 

 and clover. The fourth year let it rest in the clover, and 

 continue it in clover as long as the growth and stand 

 is good, beginning again with corn. Use stable, or lot 

 manure, in every case when it can be conveniently ob- 

 tained. For more northerly sections, where cotton and 

 stock or southern field peas will not matnre, commence 

 on new ground with corn, followed the next season with 

 oats or some small grain. Next, sow down with clover 

 or grass, or both mixed, and let remain as long as the 

 growth is luxuriant. Follow them with potatoes, and so 

 on, giving a year's rest now and then, 



