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Crimson clover may be alternated with corn, both 

 crops being grown within a year. 



A three-course rotation, popular in some parts of 

 the country, is wheat, clover, and potatoes ; potatoes 

 being the money crop and cleansing crop, wheat a 

 secondary money crop or feeding crop, and clover 

 the manurial and feeding crop. 



A popular four-course rotation is corn, potatoes 

 or truck, small grain, clover ; the potatoes being the 

 chief money crop, corn the feeding crop, the small 

 grain the secondary money or feeding crop, and 

 clover the manurial and feeding crop. 



On many New England farms near towns, hay 

 and straw are the chief money crops. Here the 

 rotation is grass two or more years, then a cleans- 

 ing crop and a grain crop. A Canadian rotation is 

 wheat, hay, pasture, oats, peas. A rotation for the 

 South might be corn, crimson clover, cotton, crim- 

 son clover; this rotation covering a period of two 

 years. A South Carolina rotation is oats, peas, cot- 

 ton, corn a three-year rotation. It might be im- 

 proved as follows: Oats, peas, crimson clover, 

 cotton, crimson clover, corn. 



