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cut for silage and rye sown in fall ; 3, rye, and 

 seeded to timothy and clover ; 4, timothy and clover 

 mown and retained as long as possible. 

 Tobacco continuously. (Hartford county.) 

 1, Corn, with rye as cover-crop ; 2, rye plowed 

 under and tobacco planted; 3, grass for one or 

 more years. (Litchfield county.) 



1, Tobacco; 2, tobacco; 3, com; 4, tobacco; 

 5, clover. (Tolland county.) 



Delaware. (A. T. Neale.) Rotations in general use. 



Most common one, now in use over one hundred 

 years: 1, Corn; 2, oats or potatoes; 3, wheat 

 seeded with timothy and clover ; 4, hay retained as 

 long as considered profitable. 



1, Corn, with crimson clover seeded in it; 2, 

 crimson clover cut for seed and a volunteer crop 

 allowed to grow until August, then plowed under 

 and seeded to wheat ; 3, wheat seeded with tim- 

 othy and clover ; 4 and 5, hay, or 4 hay ; 5, pasture. 



Dairy-farm. 1, Corn cut for silage, with crimson 

 clover seeded in July; 2, crimson clover cut for 

 hay in May, followed by corn cut for silage, with a 

 late variety of crimson clover sown in it ; 3, crim- 

 son clover cut for hay and land seeded to cowpeas 

 cut for hay, and land seeded to wheat in September ; 

 4, wheat and land seeded to timothy and clover ; 5, 

 hay ; or the latter crop may be omitted if desired. 

 A very successful rotation. 



Florida. (C. M. Conner.) Rotation not largely prac- 

 ticed. 



3-course : 1, Corn ; 2, cotton ; 3, velvet beans or 

 cowpeas. 



(G. K. Holmes) 1, Cotton ; 2, corn with peanuts 

 (Madison county). 



1, Corn ; 2, cotton ; 3, com ; 4, cotton ; 5, oats 

 (Jackson county). 



Multiple cropping is often practiced ; thus, the 

 following crops are often grown on the same land in 

 one year : Cabbages, beans and hay; melons, sweet- 

 potatoes and turnips; melons, sweet-potatoes and 

 perhaps peas ; two crops of hay and cabbage ; cab- 

 bage, beans and hay; vegetables, followed by rice; 

 corn, or cotton, followed by beggarweed (for hay 

 in corn-fields but not in cotton-fields) ; tobacco, fol- 

 lowed by Irish or sweet-potatoes, peas, turnips, etc. 



A crop of hay is generally grown after all early 

 cultivated crops. 



Georgia. (R. J. Redding.) Rotation not common. 

 See Alabama. 



6-course : 1, Cotton ; 2, cotton ; 3, cotton ; 4, 

 oats with cowpeas ; 5, corn with cowpeas ; 6, oats 

 or small grains with cowpeas. (Baldwin county.) 

 Considered only as a compromise, with all the 

 advantage in favor of the cotton. 



3-course : 1, Corn, with cowpeas ; 2, oats, with 

 cowpeas; 3, cotton. Recommended by Georgia 

 Experiment Station. On thin land it is recom- 

 mended to extend it to a 4-course, as follows : 1, 

 Com, with cowpeas ; 2, oats or wheat, with cow- 

 peas ; 3, oats or wheat, with cowpeas ; 4, cotton. 



Frequently two or three crops are grown on the 

 same land In one year ; thus, small grains, as oats, 



sweet-potatoes, potatoes, corn, cotton, cowpeas, 

 millet, peanuts, sorghum hay, cabbage, watermelons, 

 follow one another, and three crops are secured by 

 growing these after a crop of oats or wheat. 



Idaho. (H. T. French.) Rotation practiced to con- 

 siderable extent. 



7-course for irrigated land : 1-4, Alfalfa for four 

 years ; 5, wheat ; 6, oats ; 7, barley, seeded to 

 alfalfa. 



Northern part of state. 3 years: 1, Wheat; 2, 

 wheat, oats or barley; 3, bare fallow. 



5 or 6 years : 1, Wheat ; 2, oats ; 3, barley, 

 seeded with timothy and clover ; 4 and 5, timothy 

 and clover. 



Elinois. (C. G. Hopkins.) For the corn-belt : 



Most common rotation : Corn for two or three 

 years, followed by oats for one year. Sometimes 

 clover is seeded with the oats and plowed under 

 the next spring for corn. 



4-course : 1, Corn, with cowpeas, soybeans or 

 clover as a catch-crop, sown at last cultivation ; 2, 

 oats, with wheat seeded in fall ; 3, wheat, clover 

 seeded in spring ; 4, clover, first crop used for hay, 

 second for seed or grazed. 



For the wheat-belt : 



5-course : 1, Corn ; 2, com ; 3, oats, with clover 

 and timothy seeded ; 4, meadow ; 5, pasture. 



4-course : 1, Corn ; 2, oats ; 3, wheat ; 4, cow- 

 peas or soybeans. 



3-course : 1, Wheat, with cowpeas or soybeans 

 as a catch-crop ; 2, corn, with cowpeas or soy- 

 beans as a catch-crop ; 3, cowpeas or soybeans. 



Some multiple cropping is done, as : Rape in 

 corn ; cowpeas after rye or wheat ; corn after 

 strawberries ; millet after winter rye, which has 

 been used as pasture until June ; millet, turnips 

 or rape after early potatoes, etc. 



Indiana. (A. T. Wiancko.) Rotation generally 

 practiced. 

 The 3-course is most common: 1, Corn ; 2, wheat; 



3, clover, used either as hay or for seed production. 

 N. W. Indiana : 1, Corn ; 2, oats ; 3, clover. 

 4-course : 1, Corn ; 2, oats ; 3, wheat ; 4, clover. 

 E. and S. Indiana: 1, Corn ; 2, wheat; 3, clover ; 



4, grass. 



2-course : 1, Wheat ; 2, clover, fertilizers being 

 applied to the wheat. 



Iowa. 



1, Corn; 2, oats; 3-5, grass and clover. 



1, Corn ; 2, oats ; 3, clover. 



1, Corn ; 2, corn ; 3, oats ; 4 and 5, hay for two 

 or more years. (Common.) 



Kansas. (A. M. Ten Eyck.) Rotation not general. 



Northeastern Kansas : 1, Corn; 2, wheat, oats or 

 other small grains, and seed to clover and grass ; 

 3-5, clover and grass. 



Southeastern Kansas : 1, Corn; 2, oats; 3, wheat. 

 For others, see article on Farm Management, page 

 90, by Professor Ten Eyck. 



1, Kafir corn ; 2, rye ; 3, corn ; 4, millet. 



