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draining, and if so, then let that be put on the list of paying 
investments, and let the work be undertaken immediately. 
Rotation of Crops. —This is a very important subject to 
the farmer, and one on which hangs no inconsiderable portion 
of his revenue and success as a farmer. No rotation is admis- 
sable in this State, on arable land that includes less than two 
or more than three years in grass, of which clover forms an im¬ 
portant part. Four quarts of clover seed with four quarts of 
timothy seed form a good seeding for hay and pasture, but on 
some moist soils three quarts of clover with five quarts of 
timothy seed are preferred. 
Clover should be cut from June 20 to July 10 (seasons 
vary), and should not be allowed to lie in the sun too long to 
burn, but, after being put up for two or three days in small 
heaps, should be opened, aired and drawn as soon as fit, as 
over-drying is very injurious—so also is over ripeness. 
The second crop the first year maj^ be saved for clover seed, 
and most years, with good management, it is one of our best 
paying crops. After being in grass two or three years, ap¬ 
ply fifteen loads of barn-yard manure to the acre, and break 
in the spring and plant to corn. Let the cultivation be thor¬ 
ough, as it will not only help the corn but the crops that are 
to follow. Spring wheat should follow the corn, and that 
with barley, oats, or perhaps wheat again, as the farmer’s expe¬ 
rience, variety of soil and other circumstances shall require, re¬ 
membering that the oat crop is the greatest exhauster and poor¬ 
est crop of the three to lay down land to grass with. If winter 
wheat is required, follow the corn with barley or other spring 
grain (if the corn cannot be removed in time for winter wheat), 
and follow those with winter wheat; or, if the land is to lay 
in fallow, then break early and plow a second time and sow 
to winter wheat, and follow with corn, and then barley, spring 
wheat, and seed down. 
Another rotation for spring wheat has been tried to a limited 
extent and has thus far done well; to break up the sod in July 
shallow, and then plow deep in the fall and sow to wheat in the 
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