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vate, (3) the area of wheat land that one man 

 can prepare. (The timothy seed is sown with 

 the wheat.) One of the beauties of this rotation 

 is that these areas are equal. One man with a 

 good team can attend to forty acres of hay, 

 forty acres of corn, and forty acres of wheat. 



This system of cropping distributes the work 

 and is a good rotation, providing a cultivated 

 crop, a small grain and a hay and clover crop. 

 Humus, nitrogen, and tilth are contributed to 

 the soil. 



Theoretically the use of a four-horse team 

 would nearly double the production of the farm- 

 er using this rotation. For he could, by driv- 

 ing four horses, cover twice the ground in the 

 same length of time. Practically, I should like 

 the name and address of any man who is thus 

 cultivating the two hundred and forty acres. 



These three crops do not interfere, the one 

 is not produced at the expense of the other. The 

 comparative returns yielded by the three do 

 not, therefore, enter into the calculation. If the 

 wheat could be replaced by some other crop 

 which would be as advantageous in the rotation 



