IMPROVED HAY ROTATIONS 23 
cowpea, soybean, vetch and clover in a rotation, 
and used as hay, are now recognized in part, and 
wherever used they result in largely increasing 
the amount of feed, without decreasing the total 
yield of corn, cotton or tobacco. 
An improved rotation, recommended by the 
Alabama Station, is (first year) corn with cow- 
peas planted between the corn rows in May or 
June; sécond year, fall-sown oats or wheat, fol- 
lowed by cowpeas in June; third year, cotton. 
The cowpeas, after the crop of small grains is 
removed, are usually cut for hay, but may be 
picked for seed, or pastured, or plowed under in 
January or February. 
In California, and a number of the north- 
western states, continuous cropping has been 
generally practiced, although the desirability of 
rotation is becoming apparent, especially in con- 
nection with sugar-beet and wheat-growing. 
The main point, in all rotations, from the 
standpoint of forage, is so to adjust the rotations 
as to keep the land occupied, without sacrificing 
in any great degree the number of cereal or root- 
crops that may be grown. 
Land and seeding 
Another important consideration which is 
beginning to receive the attention that the condi- 
