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A good four-year rotation for a tobacco fanner is: First year, clover, corn, 

 tobacco, wheat; second year, corn, tobacco, wheat, clover; third year, 

 tobacco, wheat, clover, corn; fourth year, wheat, clover, corn, tobacco. 



An excellent rotation for corn on the fine, sandy loam-soil of eastern 

 North Carolina is, corn followed by bur clover. Sow 4 or 5 bushels of clover 

 in bur just before the last plowing of corn. The clover is plowed under in 

 spring and a volunteer crop appears in the fall. Another promising rotation 

 is: Peanuts followed by wheat, wheat followed by cowpeas, corn with 

 cowpeas, cotton. 



Director, North Carolina Agr. Experiment Station. B. W. KILGORE. 



NORTH DAKOTA 



Wheat is our money-crop. It is grown chiefly with a barren summer fallow 

 every fourth or fifth year, and sometimes with a change to barley and millet 

 occasionally, which is quite desirable. The summer fallow exhausts the 

 soil and gives no return that season. In the flax districts, flax and wheat 

 alternate and the two crops are sometimes replaced by barley or millet. A 

 rotation of three wheat and flax crops and one of corn, potatoes, or other 

 cultivated crops is beginning to find favour instead of summer fallow. This 

 gives as good returns as fallow and forces the feeding of more provender 

 to live-stock. North Dakota farmers are now just beginning to grow clover 

 and timothy and to put them into the rotation. 



Professor of Agriculture, North Dakota Agr. College. J. H. SHEPPAHD. 



OHIO 



The most common rotation in this state is corn, wheat, and a timothy 

 and clover mixture, with a variation in the number of years given to eacn 

 crop. In some parts of the state a very common rotation is corn, two years; 

 wheat, one year; timothy and clover, three years. In some localities where 

 wheat is not profitable oats are substituted for it in this rotation. Alfalfa 

 is now being used considerably in place of the timothy and clover mixture 

 of the above rotation. Potatoes, wheat, and clover have been found a very 

 satisfactory rotation by our Experiment Station. 



Professor of Agronomy, Ohio State University. A. G. McCALL. 



OKLAHOMA 



No well-defined systems of rotation have been adopted in this new country. 

 When this state was first opened, the one-crop system prevailed: wheat, 

 Indian corn, and cotton. Gradually other crops have been introduced; we 

 have now reached a point where rotations can be adopted. The following 

 general rotation could be used in northern and eastern Oklahoma: Corn; 

 cowpeas seeded at time corn is laid by; oats, followed by" cowpeas for green 

 manure; Kaffir corn; cowpeas, harvested ; fall wheat, followed by cowpeas 

 for green manure. This general plan could be followed in other sections of 

 the state but it would be necessary to substitute other crops, as broom corn 

 in the northwestern counties, and cotton in the southern counties. 



Agronomist, Oklahoma Agr. Exper. Station. L. A. MOOREHOUSE. 



