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which is cut as hay, plowed up and sown to winter wheat and vetches, 

 third year cutting the wheat and vetches for forage, following it 

 with rape, then millet cut as hay, fall plowed. 



Field No. 3. First year oats and peas cut as forage, cropped with 

 millet, which is cut as hay (always using Hungarian for these late 

 crops of millet), sown to winter wheat; second year letting the wheat 

 ripen, plowing up and sowing to barley and peas, followed by cover 

 crop of rye; third year, spring plowed, plowing under the rye and 

 sowing to oats to ripen, after harvest plowing under stubble. 



End view of a colony brooder house. 



Field No. 4. One-half planted to mangels and one-half to cab- 

 bages the first year; second vice versa, and the third the same space 

 (one-sixth acre) will be taken on field No. 3, and the old ground will 

 the sown to oats. 



The plots marked " Alfalfa permanent" will be sown to a mix- 

 ture of clover and alfalfa the first year, remaining so until the fall, of 

 the second year, at which time they will be sown to the alfalfa pure 

 and the third year remain permanent. 



In yards and orchard corn will be planted with rape (Dwarf- 

 Essex) the first two years, and the fall of the second will be sown to 

 wheat and vetches in some ; and rye and vetches in others. The rea- 

 son for so much corn the first two years is that shade will be provided 



