1, Corn, with crimson clover seeded in it ; 2, crimson clover cut for seed and a volunteer crop allowed to grow until August, then plowed under and seeded to wheat ; 3, wheat seeded with tim othy and clover ; 4 and 5, hay, or 4 hay ; 5, pasture.
Dairy-farm. 1, Corn cut for silage, with crimson clover seeded in July ; 2, crimson clover cut for hay in May, followed by corn cut for silage, with a late variety of crimson clover sown in it ; 3, crim son clover cut for hay and land seeded to cowpeas cut for hay, and land seeded to wheat in September ; 4, wheat and land seeded to timothy and clover ; 5, hay ; or the latter crop may be omitted if desired. A very successful rotation.
Florida. (C. M. Conner.) Rotation not largely prac ticed.
3-course : 1, Corn ; 2, cotton ; 3, velvet beans or cowpeas.
(G. K. Holmes) 1, Cotton ; 2, corn with peanuts (Madison county).
1, Corn ; 2, cotton ; 3, corn ; 4, cotton ; 5, oats (Jackson county).
Multiple cropping is often practiced ; thus, the following crops are often grown on the same land in one year: Cabbages, beans and hay; melons, sweet potatoes and turnips ; melons, sweet-potatoes and perhaps peas ; two crops of hay and cabbage; cab bage, beans and hay; vegetables, followed by rice; corn, or cotton, followed by beggarweed (for hay in corn-fields but not in cotton-fields); tobacco, fol lowed by Irish or sweet-potatoes, peas, turnips, etc.
A crop of hay is generally grown after all early cultivated crops.
Georgia. (R. J. Redding.) Rotation not common. See Alabama.
6-course : 1, Cotton ; 2, cotton ; 3, cotton ; 4, oats with cowpeas ; 5, corn with cowpeas ; 6, oats or small grains with cowpeas. (Baldwin county.) Considered only as a compromise, with all the advantage in favor of the cotton.
3-course : 1, Corn, with cowpeas ; 2, oats, with cowpeas ; 3, cotton. Recommended by Georgia Experiment Station. On thin land it is recom mended to extend it to a 4-course, as follows : 1, Corn, with cowpeas ; 2, oats or wheat, with cow peas ; 3, oats or wheat, with cowpeas ; 4, cotton.
Frequently two or three crops are grown on the same land in one year ; thus, small grains, as oats, sweet-potatoes, potatoes, corn, cotton, cowpeas, millet, peanuts, sorghum hay, cabbage, watermelons, follow one another, and three crops are secured by growing these after a crop of oats or wheat.
Idaho. (H. T. French.) Rotation practiced to con siderable extent.
7-course for irrigated land : 1-4, Alfalfa for four years ; 5, wheat ; 6, oats ; 7, barley, to alfalfa.
Northern part of state. 3 years: 1, Wheat ; 2, wheat, oats or barley; 3, bare fallow.
5 or 6 years : 1, Wheat ; 2, oats ; 3, barley, seeded with timothy and clover ; 4 and 5, timothy and clover.
Illinois. (C. G. Hopkins.) For the corn-belt : Most common rotation : Corn for two or three years, followed by oats for one year. Sometimes clover is seeded with the oats and plowed under the next spring for corn.
4-course : 1, Corn, with cowpeas, soybeans or clover as a catch-crop, sown at last cultivation ; 2, oats, with wheat seeded in fall ; 3, wheat, clover seeded in spring ; 4, clover, first crop used for hay, second for seed or grazed.
For the wheat-belt : 5-course : 1, Corn ; 2, corn ; 3, oats, with clover and timothy seeded ; 4, meadow ; 5, pasture.
4-course : 1, Corn ; 2, oats ; 3, wheat ; 4, cow peas or soybeans.
3-course : 1, Wheat, with cowpeas or soybeans as a catch-crop ; 2, corn, with cowpeas or soy beans as a catch-crop ; 3, cowpeas or soybeans.
Some multiple cropping is done, as : Rape in corn ; cowpeas after rye or wheat ; corn after strawberries ; millet after winter rye, which has been used as pasture until June ; millet, turnips or rape after early potatoes, etc.
Indiana. (A. T. Wiancko.) Rotation generally practiced.
The 3-course is most common: 1, Corn ; 2, wheat; 3, clover, used either as hay or for seed production. N. W. Indiana : 1, Corn ; 2, oats ; 3, clover. 4-course : 1, Corn ; 2, oats ; 3, wheat ; 4, clover. E. and S. Indiana: 1, Corn ; 2, wheat ; 3, clover ; 4, grass.
2-course : 1, Wheat ; 2, clover, fertilizers being applied to the wheat.
Iowa.
1, Corn; 2, oats; 3-5, grass and clover.
1, Corn ; 2, oats ; 3, clover.
1, Corn ; 2, corn ; 3, oats ; 4 and 5, hay for two or more years. (Common.) Kansas. (A. M. Ten Eyck.) Rotation not general. Northeastern Kansas : 1, Corn; 2, wheat, oats or other small grains, and seed to clover and grass ; 3-5, clover and grass.