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the desirability of rotation has become more apparent, especially in connection 

 with sugar beet growing. Our rotations probably will never be like those 

 in the East because it is only occasionally that a certain piece of land is suited 

 to the growth of three different grains. California must devise rotations 

 of her own, as her agriculture advances, and the question will be quite as 

 much what crop will succeed at all, as what crop will be best for the land. 

 Professor of Agriculture, University of California. E. J. WICKSON. 



COLORADO 



Under ditch the principal rotation is alfalfa for severalyears, beets or 

 potatoes, followed by grain and again seeding to alfalfa. The tendency is 

 to grow beets several seasons on the same ground on account of the high 

 profit of the crop, but they should be grown only one to two years. Where 

 potatoes are grown the same is true, in the San Luis Valley, where 50,000 

 acres of peas are grown annually, the rotation is peas, potatoes, grain. The 

 regions outside of both potatoes and beets have no definite rotation. We 

 have under experiment a rotation of alfalfa two years, roots one year, grain 

 one year. 



Professor of Agronomy, Colorado State Agr. College. W. H. OLIN. 



CONNECTICUT 



No regular rotation is practised. One of our principal industries is dairy- 

 ing and we must grow large quantities of corn for silo. On fields where corn 

 can be grown with greatest economy it is often the practice to grow corn 

 year after year, using stable manures and commercial fertiliser to maintain 

 the productive power of the soil. A rotation I have found well adapted to 

 our conditions is: First year, corn; second year, potatoes; third year, rye; 

 fourth year, meadow. The rye is put on in the fall after the potatoes are 

 removed, and the grass seeding put on with the rye. Where potatoes are 

 not desired, we sometimes break up the sod and grow corn two years in 

 succession; then seed down either with rye or use grass and clover seeda 

 alone. 



Director, Storrs Agr. Experiment Station. L. A. CLINTON. 



DELAWARE 



On most of the soils of Delaware devoted to grain fanning, the most 

 common rotation, and probably the best, is corn seeded to wheat the same 

 fall; the wheat cut in June, the stubble clover and weeds cut once or twice 

 with mowing machine and allowed to fall to the ground; clover, or clover and 

 timothy the next June followed by a second crop of hay; or, more usually, 

 the field is turned out to pasture for the remainder of the year. In other 

 words, a three-year rotation of corn, wheat and clover. Sometimes the field 

 is pastured the second season, making a four-year rotation of corn, wheat, 

 clover, pasture. This rotation in itself is not so good as the three-year 

 rotation, but it means more live stock and, therefore, more forage and grain 

 fed on the farm and consequently more manure. A few fanners get a good 

 crop of corn fully matured every fall following a good crop of crimson clover 

 hay from the same land. 



Sec. of Delaware State Board of Agriculture. WESLEY WEBB. 



