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VERMONT 



Corn, potatoes, grass; or corn, oats, grass are about the only rotations 

 practised in this state, grass occupying the major time. 



Director, Vermont Agr. Experiment Station. J. L. HILLS. 



VIRGINIA 



The most common rotation is corn, one year; wheat, two years; grass 

 for three to five years. Two years of wheat are put in because the farmers 

 do not consider that they get their land in proper condition for grass following 

 the corn with one year of wheat, especially when they expect to mow it for 

 one or two years. 



Agronomist, Virginia Agr. Experiment Station. JOHN FAIN. 



WASHINGTON 



There have not been, as yet, any well-defined rotations established. In 

 the extreme eastern part of the Palouse country, there is just beginning 

 to be considerable alfalfa and brome grass grown, but where these are grown 

 the farmers usually put them in for permanent meadow or pasture, rather 

 than inserting them as crops in a rotation. 



Through all the wheat belt the common practice is to alternate grain with 

 summer fallow, with two years of grain to one year of summer fallow in the 

 more moist parts of the wheat belt and alternate grain and summer fallow 

 in the drier portions. In the more moist portions the practice is rapidly 

 developing of growing corn, potatoes, or sugar beets on these summer fallows 

 and this is giving excellent results wherever tried. The objections to summer 

 fallowing are too well known to need mention. 



In our irrigated sections cropping is becoming highly specialised, alfalfa 

 continuously in one place, hops in another, fruit in another. On the west 

 side of the state specialisation is also marked, though dairying is beginning 

 to be a permanent factor and farmers are seeking to work out some sort of 

 a rotation and some system of soiling. There are no established rotations 

 .as yet in the state of Washington. 



Assistant Agriculturist, Washington State College. GEO. SEVERANCE. 



WISCONSIN 



In central Wisconsin clover is sown with barley, and the barley harvested; 

 the second year the clover is clipped after reaching the height of about six 

 inches and the full crop retained for seed; the third year the land is plowed 

 and run to corn, followed with clover sown with barley. The most common 

 rotation is clover and timothy sown with barley, oats, or wheat as a nurse crop. 

 First year, harvest the grain. The next year the crop is clover largely, 

 getting as a rule two cuttings. The ground is then manured quite heavily 

 in the fall and winter. As a rule some clover and a good crop of timothy 

 will be secured the third year. As soon as the hay is cut the land is usually 

 pastured until fall. The fourth year the sod is turned and corn planted. 

 .Some farmers add a fifth year in which the ground is pastured. 



Agronomist, Wisconsin Agr. Experiment Station. R. A. MOOBE. 



