104 CROP ROTATION SYSTEMS IN CANADA, UNITED STATES, AND ELSEWHERE 



manure can be spared, seeded with 4 to 6 pounds of 

 clover and a quart of timothy; 4, meadow, left 

 down three to six years. 



For dairy-farm, soil gravel loam; 33 per cent 

 of the land permanent pasture, the remainder 

 cropped as follows : 1, Corn, manured, cut for 

 silage, clover to be sown at last cultivation ; 2, 

 land manured, plowed and sown to peas for canning; 

 land disked after peas come off and sown to clover, 

 which is grazed in fall ; 3, land plowed, sown to 

 barley or oats with alfalfa, grain crop cut for hay; 

 4, 5, 6, alfalfa, mown three times a year and manure 

 applied in fifth and sixth years ; 7, corn, cut for 

 silage, with clover sown ; 8, clover mown twice 

 and manured in fall, or oats ; 9, potatoes, beans, 

 sugar-beets or cabbage ; 10, wheat, manured, with 

 grass and clover seeds ; 11, clover and grass, 

 mown twice; 12, pasture. Some straw or other 

 material will need to be purchased for bedding. 

 Part of the alfalfa will be mown green for soiling 

 the cattle. Surplus hay may be sold, also peas, 

 potatoes, wheat, to furnish cash to buy concen- 

 trates. 



North Carolina. (C. K. McClelland.) 

 Cotton-growing districts : 



2 years : 1, Cotton, followed by crimson clover ; 

 2, corn with cowpeas. 



3 years : 1, Cotton, followed by crimson clover ; 

 2, corn ; 3, wheat, followed by cowpeas. 



3 years. Cotton and grain : 1, Rye, wheat or 

 oats ; 2, cotton ; 3, corn. A poor rotation, no 

 legumes included. 



3 years. Cotton and grain : 1, Cotton ; 2, corn 

 with cowpeas; 3, wheat, followed by cowpeas. 

 Better than one above. 



Tobacco-growing districts. 2 years : 1, Tobacco ; 

 2, wheat, followed by cowpeas. 



4 years : 1, Clover ; 2, com with cowpeas ; 3, 

 tobacco ; 4, wheat seeded to clover. 



Grain-growing. 2 years : 1, Corn with cowpeas, 

 latter not harvested ; 2, wheat, followed by cow- 

 peas or crimson clover. 



Corn and potatoes : 1, Corn with cowpeas, fol- 

 lowed by rye ; 2, Irish potatoes, followed by vetch 

 or crimson clover. 



Corn and potatoes. 4 years : 1, Corn with cow- 

 peas ; 2, oats with red clover ; 3, clover ; 4, Irish 

 potatoes. 



Forage. 5 years : 1, Com ; 2, oats with red 

 clover ; 3, clover ; 4, cowpeas for seed or hay ; 5, 

 wheat. 



1, Cotton ; 2, corn ; 3, peanuts. 



1, Corn with cowpeas or crimson clover ; 2, 

 peanuts ; 3, oats with cowpeas ; 4, peanuts. 



1, Corn with cowpeas ; 2, peanuts ; 3, cotton ; 

 4, cotton. 



North Dakota. (J. H. Shepperd.) Rotations not 

 settled. 

 1, Wheat ; 2, flax ; 3, oats ; 4, barley ; 5, fallow. 



(Benson county.) 

 1, 2, Flax ; 3, 4, small grain (Ramsey county.) 

 1, Corn ; 2, flax ; 3, wheat ; 4, oats. (Cass 



county.) 



1, Wheat ; 2, wheat ; 3, flax ; 4, wheat ; 5, oats. 

 (Grand Forks county.) 



Ohio. 



1, Tobacco ; 2, wheat ; 3 and 4, grass and clover. 

 Also, 1, Corn ; 2, beardless barley ; 8-6, alfalfa. 

 (J. E. Wing.) 



3-course : 1, Tobacco ; 2, wheat ; 3, clover. 



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



4-course : 1, Corn ; 2, soybeans or cowpeas ; 3, 

 wheat ; 4, clover. 



5-course : 1, Corn ; 2, oats ; 3, wheat ; 4 and 5, 

 timothy and clover. 



T. B. Terry's 3-course : 1, Potatoes ; 2, wheat ; 

 3, clover. Has been considerably used in England. 

 (See Bavaria, p. 107.) This rotation "keeps the 

 land moving." It repeats clover every third year 

 and thereby becomes a great rejuvenator of the 

 land. 



Oklahoma. (P. C. Burtis.) Rotation not general. 



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

 peas. 



5-course : 1, Castor-beans ; 2, kafir corn ; 3, cot- 

 ton ; 4, oats ; 5, wheat and soybeans. 



1, Corn ; 2, kafir corn ; 3, sorghum. (Greer 

 county.) 



Wheat and kafir corn the same year continuously. 



Kafir com continuously. 



Oregon. (James Withycombe.) Many practice ro- 

 tation. 



Dairying: 1, Corn, cut for silage and wheat 

 drilled in between rows ; 2, wheat ; 3, clover ; 4, 

 clover ; 5, wheat. 



2-course : 1, Barley or oats ; 2, vetch. 



1, Wheat ; 2, oats ; 3, corn or fallow. (Marion 

 county.) 



1, Wheat ; 2, oats ; 3, oats ; 4, grass and clover. 



Pennsylvania. (G. C. Watson.) Rotation common 

 and long practiced. 



Clay loam : 1, Corn ; 2 oats ; 3, wheat or rye ; 4, 

 clover and timothy for one or two years. 



5-course : 1, Corn ; 2, tobacco ; 3, wheat ; 4, 

 wheat ; 5, clover and timothy. 



5-course : 1, Potatoes ; 2, oats ; 3, wheat ; 4, 

 wheat ; 5 clover and timothy. 



4-course : 1, Tobacco ; 2, oats ; 3, wheat ; 4, 

 meadow. (Clinton county.) 



Gravelly soils : 1, Corn ; 2, oats ; 3, clover ; 4, 

 oats ; 5, clover and timothy. 



Gravelly soils : 1, Corn ; 2, oats ; 3, rye, clover 

 and timothy ; clover and timothy are left down as 

 long as desirable, frequently two or three years, 

 the second and subsequent crops being largely 

 timothy. 



John Beale Bordley, on the rotation of crops, 

 1792, Philadelphia, Pa.: 



Old English : 1, Fallow ; 2, wheat ; 3, peas or 

 beans ; 4, barley. Maintained on half the farm for 

 ten or twenty years, the other half being in grass, 

 then vice versa. 



New English (suggested) : 1, Barley ; 2, clover ; 

 3, wheat ; 4, clover : 5, peas, beans or turnips. 



