ROTATIONS IN THE SOUTH CENTRAL STATES 





in corn in late summer). 2. Clover (volunteer crop plowed under 

 m autumn), 3. Winter wheat (seeded to clover and tmiothy), 

 4. Hay. 



B — 1. Corn (winter wheat sown in the fall). 2. Wmter wheat 

 (cowpeas for green-manin"ing). 3. Winter wheat (clover). 4. 

 Hay or pasture. 



C — 1. Tobacco. 2. Winter wheat (clover). 3. Clover. 4. 

 Corn with cowpeas. 



D — 1. Corn with cowpeas (winter oats). 2. Oats (clover). 

 3. Clover. 4. Potatoes (a green-manuring crop sown). 



E — 1. Cotton (vetch for winter cover crop or cowpeas). 2. 

 Corn with cowpeas between rows. 3. Peanuts. 



For the third year m this rotation (E) oats and vetch may be 

 grown for a winter crop and cowpeas for the summer crop. 



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Fig ISO — Where corn is grown 



F — 1. Cotton. 2. Oats and vetch; cowpeas. 3. Cotton; 

 vetch for winter cover crop. 4. Corn^ with cowpeas between rows. 



Rotations in the Soutii Central States. — ^This gioup of states 

 includes Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, 

 Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas. 



Important Crops. — These are named in the order of their unpor- 

 tance on the basis of acreage: Cotton (Fig. 179), corn, oats, winter 

 wheat, hay, rice, tobacco (Fig. 174), sweet potatoes, sugar cane, 

 rye and barley. 



Important Legumes. — Japan clover (lespedeza), cowpeas, velvet 

 bean, crimson clover, vetches, soybeans, medium red clover, 

 alfalfa, and alsike clover. 



Rotations. — ^A — 1. Corn (Fig. 180) (cowpeas sown at last 

 cultivation and plowed under). 2. Oats or rye (stubble plqwed in 

 summer, followed by cowpeas for feed) . 3. Cotton (cowpeas, vetch 

 or crimson clover sown between rows). 



B — 1. Cotton (cotton stalks plowed under early and winter 

 wheat sown). 2. Wheat, followed by cowpeas or soybeans for 



