DISCUSSION OF FARM MANAGEMENT 



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No. 2 C. 

 Rotation plan, or order of crops on each field. 



B.-..i Mfalfo 



First year . 



Second year 



Third year . 



Fourth year 



Fifth year . 



Sixth year . . . Com. 



Seventh year . . Small grains. 



Eighth year . . Small grains (seed to grass), 



. Alfalfa. 



. Alfalfa. 



. Alfalfa plus manure. 



. Alfalfa plus manure. 



. Com. 



. Com. 



. Small grams. 

 . Small grains I 



No. 2 D. 

 Rotation plan, or order of crops on each field, 



First year . 

 Second year 

 Third year . 

 Fourth year 

 Fifth year . 

 Sixth year . 

 Seventh year 

 Eighth year 



. Grass. 



. Grass. 



. Pasture plus manure. 



. Pasture plus manure. 



. Com. 



. Cora. 



. Small grains. 



. Small grains (seed to alfalfa). 



The rotation will not ordinarily be perfected until 

 the end of the third year, as most of the farms are 

 growing corn and small grain almost exclusively. 



This rotation of crops is well adapted only to 

 a grain -farm that carries much live-stock. It 

 will be observed that four fields, or one-half of the 

 farm, is always in alfalfa or grass, but occasionally 

 there may be only one field in alfalfa and three in 

 grass, or vice versa; this is the result of the 

 arrangement by which the seeding and breaking 

 of grass and alfalfa sod is made to come in alter- 

 nate years in order to distribute the work evenly 

 from year to year. There will always be two fields 

 of corn and two fields of small grain, although, if 

 it were preferable, corn or some other crop might 

 be grown instead of small grain, on one of these 

 fields each year previous to the year in which the 

 land is seeded down, and not interfere at all with 

 the regular system of rotation. 



A Rotation on Eight Fields with Alfalfa, Grass, Corn and Small Grain, being an Exhibit op 



Rotation Plans Nos. 2 C and 2 D. 



(M)=MaTmred. (B)=Break sod either in fall or spring. (S A)=Seed to alfalfa; this may be done in the fall and a catch 

 of alfalfa secured without losing a crop. (S G)=Seed to grass, which may be done in the fall in the West and South, and in 

 the spring with the grain in the central and eastern states. 



