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more diversified jt will be best to abandon this second crop of 
wheat on our best Wisconsin soil. 
Summer fallowing is sometimes pursued on clover land 
much worn and with good success. The experiment has also 
been tried of allowing the land to remain in clover but two years, 
and after mowing the first crop the second season, to plow 
it first shallow, then deep in the fall, and in the spring to sow 
it to wheat. But this rotatipn will need further trial before 
recommending it for general adoption. Clover, corn and 
wheat form the best rotation for spring wheat, and to this bar¬ 
ley may be added, if desired. 
LAND PLASTER. 
Some object to the use of plaster because they have tried it 
on crops to which it is the least adapted, and received little or 
no benefit; while others may have seen it used on land in ex¬ 
cess, without a corresponding amount of manure, from either 
clover or the barn yard, and the soil in the end become more 
completely worn out and heavy than it would if no plaster 
had been used. But if properly used on the right kind of 
a crop, it can be made very serviceable to the farmer. It 
should be used on the second and third crops of clover, at 
from one-half to one bushel per acre. This will help to increase 
the quan tity of clover for feed for stock, and thus increase the 
amount of manure, and'at the same time fill the soil with 
clover roots ; so that when the sod is broken up with the plow 
and the sod decays, the soil will be loose and full of plant 
food. The plaster will do more good to the wheat if put upon 
the clover than if sown directly upon the wheat. The plaster 
should be applied to the clovor soon after it starts to grow in 
the spring. 
MODE OF MANURING. 
The farmer should make it a rule to keep cattle, sheep and 
horses enough to consume all the hay on the farm with a suf¬ 
ficient quantity of corn and oats to make all the straw into 
manure with his stock. If there is more manure than is 
