244 ALFALFA FARMING IN AMERICA. 
1,500 bushels of wheat may bring $1 per bushel and 
may not; call it that and we have $1,500. By utiliz- 
ing the corn stover the alfalfa hay could mostly be 
sold; say we sell 400 tons of it at $8, we have $3,200. 
Adding up we have gross sales in this instance of 
$6,700. The thing works out about the same. In 
some ways this is the better rotation. For one thing 
corn following corn, even for two years, suffers 
somewhat from insects. In this rotation corn is al- 
most absolutely sure as it is always on alfalfa sod 
and is manured as well. It should never yield less 
than 100 bushels per acre under such treatment. 
Work for this Rotation.—In this rotation one finds 
this amount of work to do each year: 60 acres of 
alfalfa sod to break. This should be mown off four 
times as the late mowing for some reason makes the 
roots easier to break. One good three-horse team 
of heavy horses will break the 60 acres, taking it in 
a leisurely fashion from October till spring, when- 
ever there is open weather. Alfalfa sod fits easily 
for corn. The wheat is sown in the clean corn 
stubble by simply disking and drilling in. It should 
have additional phosphorus to start it vigorously 
off before cold weather. The wheat stubble should 
be plowed very swiftly after the wheat is taken off, 
and here is the worst feature of this scheme; at the 
same time one may need teams in the corn field and 
in the alfalfa meadow. It may be necessary to ar- 
range to ‘hire additional teams at this time to get this 
seeding well and promptly done. It will greatly help 
if the wheat stubble is thoroughly disked the mo- 
