AGRICULTURE OF JACKSON COUNTY. 
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In some of the rotations suggested it may be desirable to 
substitute rye for wheat or oats, especially on the sandy soils. 
Tobacco can be grown on the same field for from two to three 
years, followed by two years of corn and one of small grain 
seeded to clover. With the tobacco a phosphate fertilizer should 
be used to supplement the manure. A second crop of clover 
can be plowed under, and thus save some of the manure for 
other parts of the farm. Tobacco should not be grown on the 
same field for a long period of years as is often the practice. 
The growing of peas for canning could be made an important 
crop in this section, and this crop could be readily introduced 
into a four year rotation. Such a rotation might consist of small 
grain, clover, cultivated crops, which would be followed by 
peas. This may be made a five year rotation by adding timothy 
and cutting hay for two years. This system would be best 
suited to the western part of the county where the soils are 
heavier. 
On the marsh lands as •they are reclaimed, the question of 
crop rotation should also be considered. There are three types 
of farming to which marsh soils are adapted and these are stock 
raising or dairy farming, trucking and a combination of the 
two in which neither type predominates. Grain farming can 
not as yet be recommended on marsh soils. Where a farmer 
has 30 or 40 acres of peat he can divide the field into four parts 
and raise cabbage on one, sugar beets on one, grain on one and 
hay on the other. Thus a four year rotation of hay, sugar beets, 
cabbage and grain would be practiced on the peat. On a dairy 
farm two or three crops of corn may be grown in succession 
but in this region one should take into account the danger from 
frost. The corn may be followed by grain and this by alsike 
clover and timothy. The hay may be cut the first year and 
pastured the second. Potatoes may also be grown on peat land 
but here again the danger from frost and the quality of the 
product must be considered. In some localities outside of this 
area in this and other states a one crop system is being followed 
Avhere celery, peppermint, or some other crop is the entire 
source of income. While a rotation of crops on such land is 
not absolutely essential a change of crops is desirable to aid in 
the control of weeds and insect pests. 
