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AGRICULTURE 



ditions and requirements. The rotation is usually based on 

 some one principal crop, such as corn, cotton, potatoes or 

 wheat, the other crops being arranged to favor these. Where 

 cotton or tobacco is the main crop, the following five-year 

 rotation is considered a good one : First year, cotton or to- 

 bacco; second year, corn and crimson clover; third year, 

 crimson clover; fourth year, small grains; fifth year, cow- 

 peas or soy-beans. 



A good five-year rotation to include trucking and fruit 

 growing may be as follows: First year, cotton or wheat 

 and cow-peas ; second year, early potatoes and beans ; third 

 year, early potatoes and beans or other vegetables; and 

 strawberries for the two succeeding years. 



The table for the five-year rotation, showing distribu- 

 tion by fields, is as follows : 



Note that the above system of rotation provides for 

 both corn and cotton each year, but never in the same 

 field for two or more successive years. It also provides for 



