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upland farm: Corn (for husking and ensilage); oats and peas; clover; 

 potatoes; Hungarian; timothy; timothy; pasture. 

 Professor of Agriculture, New Hampshire College. T. W. TAYLOR. 



NEW JERSEY 



We have a large number of rotations because of the many crops grown. 

 In general farming the rotations are about as follows: (1) Corn, oats, wheat, 

 clover; (2) corn, oats, wheat, clover and timothy mixed, timothy; (3) corn, 

 wheat or rye, clover. In dairy, potato and market garden sections the 

 rotations are: (1) Corn, oats and peas and cowpeas, rye or wheat, clover; 

 (2) corn, wheat, potatoes, clover or timothy or mixed; (3) corn, potatoes, 

 hay; (4) corn, tomatoes, sweet potatoes, white potatoes, clover. This is 

 not a regular rotation, but these are used as conditions seem to warrant. 



Director, New Jersey Agr. Experiment Station. E. B. VOORHEES. 



NEW MEXICO 



But little crop rotation is practised in this territory. Alfalfa, in most 

 cases, is grown continuously on the same land. There is but one arrangement 

 of crops that can be classed as a rotation, that is wheat and corn, which 

 are usually grown in alternation. 



Assistant in Irrigation, New Mexico 



College of Agriculture. A. C. MARTENBOWER. 



NEW YORK 



One of the best rotations where wheat is grown is : Clover, corn or potatoes, 

 oats or barley, wheat with seeding. In this case the hay is usually harvested 

 but one season. A rotation more generally used in the southern tier of 

 counties where wheat is not grown is : Clover and timothy, two or more years, 

 corn or potatoes, oats with seeding. A rotation considerably used in the 

 northwestern part of the state where buckwheat is much grown, is: Buck- 

 wheat, oats with seeding, meadow as long as the yield is satisfactory, then 

 buckwheat again. It is generally recognised that buckwheat has peculiar 

 value for mellowing heavy soils. Advantage is sometimes taken of this 

 to improve such soils for potato growing. The meadow is cut, the land 

 immediately plowed and sown to buckwheat. This is followed by potatoes, 

 then oats with seeding. There are a large number of other rotations found 

 on different farms. 



Assistant Professor of Agronomy, Cornell University. J. L. STONE. 



NORTH CAROLINA 



We have found the following a very good three-year rotation for a cotton 

 farmer: First year, (a) wheat, oats, or rye, followed by cowpeas, (&) cotton 

 followed by rye, (c) corn with cowpeas; second year, (a) cotton followed by 

 rye, (6) corn with cowpeas, (c) wheat, oats, or rye, followed by cowpeas; 

 third year, (a) corn with cowpeas, (6) wheat, oats, or rye followed by 

 cowpeas, (c) cotton followed by rye. 



The peas are sown after the small grain crops and harvested; the rye in 

 the cotton and the cowpeas in the corn are sown at the last cultivation. 



