Southeastern Kansas : 1, Corn; 2, oats; 3, wheat. For others, see article on Farm Management, page 90, by Professor Ten Eyck.
1, Kafir corn ; 2, rye ; 3, corn ; 4, millet.
1, Kafir corn ; 2, corn.
1, Kafir corn ; 2, corn ; 3, sorghum.
Kafir corn is grown as a catch-crop after wheat.
Kentucky. (J. N. Harper.) 1, Kentucky blue-grass for several years, hemp for several years, corn two years, wheat, cowpeas, wheat, clover two years, timothy and Kentucky bluegrass; grass land manured ; fertilizer applied to hemp and corn.
Tobacco, two years ; corn, three years ; wheat, two years ; clover, two years ; timothy and Ken tucky blue-grass, the latter remaining for several years.
Tobacco ; corn, with peas ; wheat ; cowpeas ; wheat ; corn, two years ; oats ; cowpeas ; rye ; corn ; wheat ; clover ; timothy ; Kentucky blue grass.
1, Corn ; 2, rye ; 3, clover ; 4, clover. (Clark county.) 1, Tobacco ; 2, rye ; 3, clover. (Grant county.) 1, Tobacco ; 2, wheat ; 3, clover. (Graves county, etc.) 1, Corn ; 2, tobacco ; 3, wheat ; 4 and 5, clover. (Christian county.) Multiple cropping is practiced, as : Potatoes, followed by sweet corn, beans, corn, turnips, cab bage ; onions with cabbage ; rye and millet, soy beans, clover, cowpeas being sown with rape ; corn and small grains, with cowpeas, clover, etc.
Louisiana. (F. H. Burnette.) 2-course : 1, Cotton ; 2, corn with cowpeas. Rice-growing : Rice for two years ; one year rest, with no crop.
Sugar-growing : Cane for three years ; corn with cowpeas.
In use in 1850 and maintained until the land be came unproductive : 1, Cotton ; 2, cotton ; 3, corn.
Some multiple cropping is practiced. See Florida and Georgia.
Maine. (W. D. Hurd.) Rotation not general.
1, Potatoes ; 2, corn, manured, cut for silage ; 3, oats, seeded with grass and clover ; 4 and 5, hay.
Potato-growers' rotation : 1, Potatoes ; 2, oats or spring-wheat ; 3, grass and clover.
1, Oats ; 2 and 3, clover ; 4, potatoes. This re quires but one plowing in four years, viz., that for the potatoes.
Maryland. (W. T. L. Taliaferro.) Rotation com monly practiced. General farming.
Very common : 1, Corn ; 2, wheat or oats ; 3, wheat, with grass and clover, stubble pastured ; 4, mixed hay cut once, second crop grazed ; 5, timothy cut once, second crop grazed.
1, Corn ; 2, wheat, followed by some rapid-grow ing cowpea ; 3, cowpeas plowed under and seeded to wheat with grass and clover ; 4 and 5, hay and pasture.
1, Corn with crimson clover between rows ; 2, crimson clover plowed under and corn planted ; 3, wheat ; 4, winter oats ; 5 and 6, timothy.
1, Corn ; 2, wheat ; 3, clover, pastured.
1, Tobacco ; 2, wheat with clover ; 3, clover grazed. Often the clover fails when sown so fre quently, and the third course is largely weeds.
See Tennessee.
1, Corn, with cowpeas between the rows and crimson clover sown at last cultivation ; 2, clover plowed under and cowpeas put in for hay or silage ; 3, wheat, with timothy and clover ; 4 and 5, hay.
Massachusetts. (Wm. P. Brooks.) Rotation gener ally practiced.
Dairy-farming, 5-course, soil medium loam, good: 1, Corn, manured for grain ; 2, corn, manured, cut for silage and grass and clover sown in the corn ; 3, grass and clover mown twice ; 4, grass and clover, sometimes fertilized and mown twice ; 5, grass and clover, usually fertilized and mown twice.
5-course. Heavy ]dams. Good: 1, Corn, manured ; 2, oats, with grass and clover seeds ; 3, 4, 5, grass and clover, usually mown twice and fertilized the last two years.
5-course. Light soil. Fair : 1, Corn, manured, for silage ; 2, corn, manured, for grain ; 3, rye, with grass and clover seeds ; 4 and 5, hay cut twice a year and fertilized.
Potato-growing, 5-course. Medium to light soils. Good : 1, Potatoes fertilized ; 2, corn, for silage, manured ; 3, oats, cut for hay, and seeded to grass and clover ; 4 and 5, hay, cut twice a year and fertilized.
3-course. Light soils. Poor : 1, Potatoes with fertilizers ; 2, winter rye ; 3, clover.
4-course. Light soils : 1, Corn manured ; 2, potatoes with fertilizers ; 3, rye ; 4, clover.
1, Corn ; 2, oats ; 3, rye ; 4 and 5, grass and clover. (Hampden county.) In Buckland :1, Corn, manured ; 2, oats manured, and land laid to grass, which was allowed to grow until the yield dropped to 1,500 pounds per acre. First crop usually 2 tons per acre.