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MASSACHUSETTS 



Massachusetts farming is largely devoted to specialties. Fertilisers or 

 manures or both are used very freely and there is less dependence upon rota- 

 tions than in many other states. Some of the most important money-crops, 

 especially onions and tobacco, are grown year after year on the same land. 

 In some parts of the state a four-course rotation, (1) turnips, barley, clover 

 and oats, is practised, most of the manure being applied to the corn, not to 

 the grass. In parts of the state where dairying is prominent and where 

 the potato is a money-crop, a common rotation is (2) potatoes, one year; 

 corn, two years (the second for ensilage); grass and clover three years. 

 There are several modifications of this rotation. On our light soils the follow- 

 ing three rotations are common: (3) Potatoes, winter rye, clover; (4) com, 

 potatoes, rye, clover; (5) corn, potatoes, rye, grass and clover two years. 

 Succession cropping is practised with much skill and success by our market 

 gardeners. 



Director, Massachusetts Agr. Experiment Station. W. P. BROOKS. 



MICHIGAN 



A rotation valued at the college is corn, wheat, oats or barley, clover or 

 clover and timothy, pasture. In most cases we spread manures upon pasture. 

 We seed always wim a grain crop. In Wexf ord County the following rotation 

 is used successfully: Clover, potatoes, wheat; seeding to clover with the 

 wheat. Many farmers believe that it is not possible to secure a good stand 

 of clover or clover and timothy with oats, and therefore grow wheat or barley. 



Professor of Agronomy, Michigan Agr. College. JOB. A. JEFFEBY. 



MISSISSIPPI 



As a rule our fanners do not practise crop rotation. Our best rotation 

 for the general cotton farmer is: Fall oats, followed by cowpeas; cotton; 

 corn, laid by in cowpeas. The above rotation has for i*s principal object 

 the maintenance of soil fertility. 



Professor of Agriculture, Mississippi Agr. College. E. R. LLOYD. 



MISSOURI 



Missouri fanners are just beginning to rotate crops. In north Missouri 

 and part of Missouri the common rotation has been corn for several 

 years, then grass for a few years and back into corn. In the wheat-growing 

 section it has been mostly wheat for several years, then into grass, and back 

 again into wheat; although some of the farmers have practised a rotation 

 01 (1) corn, wheat and clover, or clover and timothy. A rotation used in 

 north Missouri is (2) corn, oats, clover or clover and timothy. Farmers 

 are beginning to sow cowpeas to some extent, using (8) corn, cowpeas, wheat, 

 or (4) corn, cowpeas, wheat, clover; or in some cases simply wheat and 

 cowpeas. In southeast Missouri some farmers harvest wheat, turn the 

 land quickly and put in cowpeas, harvest the cowpeas for seed or hay and 

 put the land back into wheat in the fall. Some farmers in northeast Missouri 

 have a rotation of (5) corn, oats, wheat, clover, in some cases following the 

 clover with timothy. 



Professor of Agronomy, University of Missouri. M. F. MILLEB. 



