CROP ROTATION 



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Practical Exercises 

 1. Systems of Crop Rotations 



Copy the two following systems of crop rotation in 

 your notebook and memorize them : 



(a) Sow clover seed in the wheat in March or April. 



(b) Harvest the wheat as usual, and allow the clover 

 to remain as a cover crop for the winter. 



(c) Plow up the clover sod the following April. 



(d) Plant to corn. 



(e) Sow wheat in the corn in September. 



(f ) Sow clover seed in the wheat again in March. 



II 



If the land is much reduced or of a poor soil, the 

 rotation begins and proceeds as in (I) above, except 

 at (c), instead of plowing up the clover for corn in the 

 spring, allow it to stand another season. A hay crop 

 may then be harvested in June or July, and a seed crop 

 in the following September, after which proceed as 

 in (I). 



Tabulate the following in your notebook : 



Rotation of Crops 



