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gtiums, rape, and all kinds of garden vegetables and 

 strawberries. It is, of course, better adapted to 

 short than to long rotations, because of the limited 

 duration of the life of the plants. 



The length of the rotation will, of course, depend 

 upon various contingencies. Frequently, the clover 

 is cropped or pastured but one season following the 

 year on which the seed was sown, whatsoever the 

 character of the crops that precede or follow it, but 

 in more instances, probably, it is used as crop or 

 pasture for two years. When timothy is sown along 

 with this clover the pasturing or cropping may con- 

 tinue for one or more seasons longer before the 

 ground is broken, but in such instances the timothy 

 will have consumed much or all of the nitrogen put 

 into the soil by the clover, save what has escaped in 

 the drainage water. One of the best rotations in 

 which to sow mammoth clover, as also the medium 

 red, is the following: Sow in a nurse crop of rye, 

 wheat, oats or barley, as the case may be, in order 

 that it may be pastured or cut for hay the following 

 season, and then follow with a crop of corn or pota- 

 toes. This in turn is followed by one or another of 

 the small grains. This constitutes a three years' 

 rotation, but in the case of mammoth clover it is 

 frequently lengthened to four years. The year fol- 

 lowing the sowing of the clover, it is cut for hay 

 or for seed, and the next year it is pastured with 

 or without a top-dressing of farmyard manure. This 

 rotation meets with considerable favor in certain 

 areas of Wisconsin, well adapted to the growth of 

 the plant. 



