102 CROP ROTATION SYSTEMS IN CANADA," UNITED STATES, AND ELSEWHERE 



1, Kafir corn ; 2, corn. 



1, Kafir corn ; 2, corn ; 3, sorghum. 



Kafir corn is grown as a catch- crop after wheat. 



Kentucky. (J. N. Harper.) 



1, Kentucky blue-grass for several years, hemp 

 for several years, corn two years, wheat, cowpeas, 

 wheat, clover two years, timothy and Kentucky 

 blue-grass ; grass land manured ; fertilizer applied 

 to hemp and corn. 



Tobacco, two years ; corn, three years ; wheat, 

 two years ; clover, two years ; timothy and Ken- 

 tucky blue-grass, the latter remaining for several 

 years. 



Tobacco ; corn, with peas ; wheat ; cowpeas ; 

 wheat ; corn, two years ; oats ; cowpeas ; rye ; 

 corn ; wheat ; clover ; timothy ; Kentucky blue- 

 grass. 



1, Corn ; 2, rye ; 3, clover ; 4, clover. (Clark 

 county.) 



1, Tobacco ; 2, rye ; 3, clover. (Grant county.) 



1, Tobacco ; 2, wheat ; 3, clover. (Graves county, 

 etc.) 



1, Corn ; 2, tobacco ; 3, wheat ; 4 and 5, clover. 

 (Christian county.) 



Multiple cropping is practiced, as : Potatoes, 

 followed by sweet corn, beans, corn, turnips, cab- 

 bage ; onions with cabbage ; rye and millet, soy- 

 beans, clover, cowpeas being sown with rape ; corn 

 and small grains, with cowpeas, clover, etc. 



Louisiana. (P. H. Burnette.) 



2-course : 1, Cotton ; 2, corn with cowpeas. 



Rice-growing : Rice for two years ; one year 

 rest, with no crop. 



Sugar-growing : Cane for three years ; corn with 

 cowpeas. 



In use in 1850 and maintained until the land be- 

 came unproductive : 1, Cotton ; 2; cotton ; 3, corn. 

 . Some multiple cropping is practiced. See Florida 

 and Georgia. 



Maine. (W. D. Hurd.) Rotation not general. 



1, Potatoes ; 2, corn, manured, cut for silage ; 

 3, oats, seeded with grass and clover ; 4 and 5, hay. 



Potato-growers' rotation : 1, Potatoes ; 2, oats 

 or spring-wheat ; 3, grass and clover. 



1, Oats ; 2 and 3, clover ; 4, potatoes. This re- 

 quires but one plowing in four years, viz., that for 

 the potatoes. 



Maryland. (W. T. L. Taliaferro.) Rotation com- 

 monly practiced. General farming. 



Very common : 1, Corn ; 2, wheat or oats ; 3, 

 wheat, with grass and clover, stubble pastured ; 4, 

 mixed hay cut once, second crop grazed ; 5, timothy 

 cut once, second crop grazed. 



1, Corn ; 2, wheat, followed by some rapid-grow- 

 ing cowpea ; 3, cowpeas plowed under and seeded to 

 wheat with grass and clover ; 4 and 5, hay and 

 pasture. 



1, Corn with crimson clover between rows ; 2, 

 crimson clover plowed under and corn planted ; 3, 

 wheat ; 4, winter oats ; 5 and 6, timothy. 



1, Corn ; 2, wheat ; 3, clover, pastured. 



1, Tobacco ; 2, wheat with clover ; 3, clover 

 grazed. Often the clover fails when sown ?o fre- 

 quently, and the third course is largely weeds. 



See Tennessee. 



1, Corn, with cowpeas between the rows and 

 crimson clover sown at last cultivation ; 2, clover 

 plowed under and cowpeas put in for hay or silage ; 

 3, wheat, with timothy and clover ; 4 and 5, hay. 



Massachusetts. (Wm. P. Brooks.) Rotation gener- 

 ally practiced. 

 Dairy-farming, 5-course, soil medium loam, good: 



1, Corn, manured for grain ; 2, corn, manured, cut 

 for silage and grass and clover sown in the corn ; 

 3, grass and clover mown twice ; 4, grass and 

 clover, sometimes fertilized and mown twice ; 5, 

 grass and clover, usually fertilized and mown twice. 



5-course. Heavy loams. Good: 1, Corn, manured ; 



2, oats, with grass and clover seeds ; 3, 4, 5, grass 

 and clover, usually mown twice and fertilized the 

 last two years. 



5-course. Light soil. Fair: 1, Corn, manured, 

 for silage ; 2, corn, manured, for grain ; 3, rye, 

 with grass and clover seeds ; 4 and 5, hay cut 

 twice a year and fertilized. 



Potato-growing, 5-course. Medium to light soils. 

 Good : 1, Potatoes fertilized ; 2, corn, for silage, 

 manured ; 3, oats, cut for hay, and seeded to grass 

 and clover ; 4 and 5, hay, cut twice a year and - 

 fertilized; 



8-course. Light soils. Poor: 1, Potatoes with 

 fertilizers ; 2, winter rye ; 3, clover. 



4-course. Light soils : 1, Corn manured ; 2, 

 potatoes with fertilizers ; 3, rye ; 4, clover. 



1, Corn ; 2, oats ; 3, rye ; 4 and 5, grass and 

 clover. (Hampden county.) 



In Buckland : 1, Corn, manured ; 2, oats manured, 

 and land laid to grass, which was allowed to grow 

 until the yield dropped to 1,500 pounds per acre. 

 First crop usually 2 tons per acre. 



In Shelburne, on one of the best farms : 1, Corn 

 on a grass sward, manured; 2, spring-wheat, laid 

 down to grass or sometimes rye ; then oats, or oats 

 and peas ; then wheat, with grass ; grass remain- 

 ing for five years. 



In Deerfield : 1, Corn, manured ; 2, spring-wheat, 

 or wheat and oats, or rye with southern clover ; 



3, clover, then plowed again. 



Sometimes an early crop of hay is followed by 

 millet, barley or winter squash ; green rye by corn, 

 oats or millet ; oat hay by barley. 



Coleman in Fourth Report of Agriculture, 

 Mass., 1841, says that rotation is limited. 



Michigan. 



1, Corn ; 2, rye ; 3, clover. (Gratiot county.) 

 1, Corn ; 2, rye ; 3, rye ; 4 and ^, clover. (Alle- 

 gan county.) 



Minnesota. (A. D. Wilson.) 



3-course for dairy sections : 1, Grain, as oats, 

 etc.; 2, clover ; 8, corn. 



5-course : 1, Wheat, seeded to grass and clover ; 

 2, meadow; 3, pasture; 4, grain, usually oats; 5, 

 corn, manured at eight tons per acre. 



