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are wheat, barley, oats, and flax. All these are spring 

 planted crops. As the farming is becoming more diversi- 

 fied, more corn and hay are being grown. These provide 

 a good rotation. In regions where the crops do well, 

 corn or potatoes may be followed by several years of 

 small grain crops, and these followed by timothy and 

 clover. This may leave half or more of the land in small 

 grain and yet provide a good rotation and provide for 

 the keeping of live-stock. 



In the corn-belt, a very satisfactory rotation is : corn 

 two years, followed by oats in which timothy and clover are 

 seeded. If the grass is left one year, half of the land may 

 be kept in corn, or the grass may be left longer, if desired. 



The farmers in the Northeastern States usually raise 

 corn, potatoes, cabbage, or other tilled crops on sod. 

 These are usually followed by oats. In most of the re- 

 gion, timothy and clover are seeded with the oats. In 

 some parts, the oats are followed by wheat in which grass 

 is seeded. In either case, the grass is left as long as it is 

 good. This is generally three or four years. The first 

 year of grass is mixed clover and timothy. The later 

 years are mostly timothy. The standard rotation of all 

 this region is a tilled crop followed by one or two years 

 of small grain, and this followed by about three years of 

 hay. This is a region of many kinds of farming, and there 

 are many variations, but the above is the rotation on the 

 majority -of farms. 



There is not room to give many of the multitudes of 

 rotations that have proved satisfactory in different regions. 

 For a very extended list of rotations used or recommended 

 for different regions in this and other countries, see 

 " Cyclopedia of American Agriculture," Vol. II, pp. 99 

 to 109, 



