3-course : 1, Corn, land manured the previous fall and winter and plowed in spring ; 2, grain ; oats or barley, spring-sown, with ten pounds of red clover, one pound of alsike clover, five pounds of alfalfa, five pounds of timothy seed per acre ; 3, pasture. Thus far, pasturing the land, instead of mowing as in the previous rotation, has not been so remunerative.
4-course : 1, Roots ; 2, grain (oats), land being fall-plowed if possible and ten pounds of red clover, one pound of alsike, ten pounds of timothy sown with the oats ; 3, meadow, mown twice ; 4, meadow, mown twice, land manured and fall-plowed.
4-course. For a sheep-farm : 1, Roots, areas of the following crops being grown to furnish a succes sion: White turnips, cabbage, rutabagas or swedes, kohlrabi, thousand-headed kale, rape, mangels, etc.; 2, grain, oats or barley, used for soiling or for grain as circumstances dictate. The following seeds are sown with the grain : Alfalfa, red clover, alsike clover, awnless brome and timothy ; 3, meadow, mown once, the aftermath being devoted to pasture for newly weaned lambs ; 4, pasture, manured in the fall and plowed for the succeeding root crop.
5-course : 1, Oats, with clover and timothy among ; 2, meadow ; 3, meadow, plowed twice in the fall and left ridged for winter ; 4, oats, with ten pounds of red clover per acre as a cover and green-manuring crop, land manured in winter ; 5, corn ; land spring-plowed for the corn and fall plowed after its removal if possible.
5-course : 1, Oats, with ten pounds of red clover, one pound of alsike clover, and five pounds of tim othy per acre ; 2, meadow, manured in the fall and winter ; 3, corn or roots, land spring-plowed ; 4, oats, with clover and timothy as before ; 5, meadow, and land fall-plowed for succeeding oat crop.
6-course : 1, Oats, land fall-plowed, and ten pounds of red clover sown with the oats and allowed to grow until late fall, when it is plowed under ; 2, oats or barley, with eight pounds of red clover and ten pounds of timothy per acre ; 3, clover hay, mown twice and last aftermath not grazed ; 4, mixed hay, land manured ; 5, timothy hay ; 6, timothy hay, land fall-plowed.
If straight timothy hay is desired all the time, no clover need be sown ; such a course is not so profitable for general farming.
Alabama. (J. F. Duggar.) Rotation not often attempted.
1, Corn with cowpeas between ; 2, small grain, usually oats, with cowpeas ; 3, cotton ; 4, cotton or corn as before.
1, Cotton ; 2, cotton ; 3, cotton ; 4, oats with cowpeas. (Wilcox county.) Arkansas. Cotton continuously on bottom-land. 1, Corn ; 2, cotton ; 3, oats with cowpeas.
California. (E. J. Wickson.) Rotation not general, in fact, generally avoided. Grain crops are sometimes grown after beans or alfalfa. Watermelons, tomatoes, etc., are followed by grain. Grain and pasture are alternated. 1, Corn ; 2, wheat ; 3, oats. (Napa county.) 2-course: 1, Barley; 2, fallow. (Monterey county, etc.) 2-course : 1, Wheat ; 2, fallow. (San Joaquin county, etc.) 1, Corn, for silage ; 2, oats, for hay. (Sonoma county.) Considerable multiple cropping is done on irri gated land.
Colorado. (W. H. Olin.) No general use of rotations.
1, Grain ; 2-4, alfalfa, cut two or three times per year ; 5-7, roots, potatoes, sugar-beets, etc.
1, Peas ; 2, potatoes ; 3, wheat ; 4, fallow.
1, Potatoes ; 2, wheat ; 3, potatoes ; 4, wheat ; 5, alfalfa, one to several years.
Potato-growing sections. 8-course : 1, Potatoes ; 2, potatoes ; 3, wheat ; 4, barley or oats and seeded to alfalfa ; 5, 6, 7, 8, alfalfa, manured before plow ing under for potatoes.
Connecticut. (L. A. Clinton.) Rotation common.
1, Corn, manured. cut for silage, and rye sown among for cover-crop and plowed under ; 2, corn cut for silage and rye sown in fall ; 3, rye, and seeded to timothy and clover ; 4, timothy and clover mown and retained as long as possible.
Tobacco continuously. (Hartford county.) 1, Corn, with rye as cover-crop ; 2, rye plowed under and tobacco planted ; 3, grass for one or more years. (Litchfield county.) 1, Tobacco ; 2, tobacco ; 3, corn ; 4, tobacco ; 5, clover. (Tolland county.) Delaware. (A. T. Neale.) Rotations in general use.
Most common one, now in use over one hundred years : 1, Corn ; 2, oats or potatoes ; 3, wheat seeded with timothy and clover ; 4, hay retained as long as considered profitable.