APPENDIX 



I. ROTATIONS PRACTISED IN DIFFERENT STATES 



The following remarks on the crop rotations practised in or recommended 

 for the different states are a summary of correspondence between the author 

 and the various authorities quoted. 



ALABAMA 



In the cotton states the majority of farmers pay little attention to rotations. 

 Where small grains are grown the following rotation is recommended: 

 First year, corn, with cowpeas planted in May or June between the corn rows. 

 Second year, fall-sown oats or wheat, followed by cowpeas in June. Third 

 year, cotton. The cowpeas after the crop of small grains are usually cut 

 for hay, but may be picked for seed or may be pastured or plowed under in 

 January or February. This can be lengthened into a four-year rotation, in 

 order to put one-half of the arable land of the farm into cotton, by adding 

 cotton as the crop of the fourth year. 



Director, Alabama Experiment Station. J. F. DUGGAK. 



ARIZONA 



Our soils are still so new to cultivation and so fertile that the need of 

 rotations has not yet been felt. The deficient elements of our soils are nitro- 

 gen and humus. At present, and doubtless largely in the future, these are 

 supplied by alfalfa. 



Agriculturist, Arizona Agr. Experiment Station. V. A. CLARK. 



ARKANSAS 



Arkansas is both a cotton and fruit state. Land along the rivers is culti- 

 vated in corn and cotton without reference to rotation. Throughout the 

 state cowpeas grow well and are usually sown after oats and wheat are har- 

 vested, also in the cornfields. Rye is used only for winter pasture. In the 

 orchard belt the usual rotation is corn, wheat, cowpeas; or corn, oats, clover. 

 The rotation of stock farmers is corn (summer), rye (winter), cowpeas or 

 sorghum (forage), wheat (winter and spring). The weak point in the agri- 

 culture of this state is the lack of diversified crops. 



Professor of Agriculture, University of Arkansas. GEO. A. COLE. 



CALIFORNIA 



The course of California agriculture hitherto has been to avoid rotation 

 and to keep the land producing that to which it seems adapted, and for 

 which profitable prices could be had, for an indefinite period. Recently 



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