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MONTANA 



But one rotation is followed to any great extent two years in clover and 

 two years in grain; wheat or oats being usually grown after the second crop 

 of clover, and oats or-barley the succeeding year. On dry bench lands above 

 the irrigation ditch a common practice is to summer-fallow one year followed 

 by a grain crop the next. On the watered land, in some sections, summer- 

 fallow is followed by two or three grain crops. In a few instances, peas are 

 followed by two crops of grain. Sometimes this is made peas, potatoes and 

 grain two years. Some are planning the following rotation: Alfalfa, four 

 or five years; wheat, sugar beets, or other cultivated crops, two years; then 

 one or two seasons of grain. 



Director, Montana Agr. Experiment Station. F. B. LINFIELD. 



NEBRASKA 



Crop rotation is not carried out systematically by many Nebraska farmers. 

 Corn is the main crop throughout the eastern third of the state; frequently 

 it is grown continuously on the same field. Recently farmers have begun 

 to realise the necessity for some change on account of the corn root-worm 

 and other difficulties, and it is now quite common to alternate com with 

 oats. Where anything like a systematic rotation is attempted it generally 

 consists of corn for perhaps two years, followed by oats put in on the corn 

 stubble without plowing, followed by winter wheat drilled in on the plowed 

 oat stubble. In the central part of the state, corn and wheat are alternated 

 by drilling in wheat between the corn rows. In the extreme western part 

 of the state the occasional complete failure of crops takes the place of a rotation 

 so far as its effect on the land is concerned. A rotation at the Nebraska 

 Experiment Station consists of corn two years, oats, wheat, alfalfa, or mixed 

 grasses. If seeded down it is left for four years. 



Professor of Agriculture, University of Nebraska. T. L. LYON. 



NEVADA 



There is no prevailing crop rotation in this state. More often than other- 

 wise two crops of grain follow alfalfa. Potatoes usually follow alfalfa and 

 are followed by grain. The length of time that land is kept in alfalfa de- 

 pends largely upon the stand. It is seldom less than four years. Some 

 alfalfa fields in the state are twenty years old. 



Professor of Agriculture, Nevada State University. GORDON H. TBUE. 



NEW HAMPSHIRE 



There are only a few farms which contain arable land in large enough 

 fields to practise a definite system of rotation. The fields on many farms 

 remain in grass for twenty-five years, or even longer. The fields on which 

 the sod is poorest are plowed in late summer and either seeded down again 

 at once to grass or planted to corn or potatoes for a year or two, and then 

 seeded to grass. Perhaps the following is the most common rotation: 

 Corn; potatoes; oats, or oats and peas; clover; clover and timothy; timothy. 

 Prof. J. W. Sanborn practises the following eight-year rotation on his 



