In Shelburne, on one of the best farms : 1, Corn on a grass sward, manured ; 2, spring-wheat, laid down to grass or sometimes rye ; then oats, or oats and peas ; then wheat, with grass ; grass remain ing for five years.
In Deerfield : 1, Corn, manured ; 2, spring-wheat, or wheat and oats, or rye with southern clover ; 3, clover, then plowed again.
Sometimes an early crop of hay is followed by millet, barley or winter squash ; green rye by corn, oats or millet ; oat hay by barley.
Coleman in Fourth Report of Agriculture, Mass., 1841, says that rotation is limited.
Michigan.
1, Corn ; 2, rye ; 3, clover. (Gratiot county.) 1, Corn ; 2, rye ; 3, rye ; 4 and 5, clover. (Alle gan county.) Minnesota. (A. D. Wilson.) 3-course for dairy sections : 1, Grain, as oats, etc.; 2, clover ; 3, corn.
5-course : 1, Wheat, seeded to grass and clover ; 2, meadow; 3, pasture ; 4, grain, usually oats; 5, corn, manured at eight tons per acre.
Grain-growing. 7-course : 1, Corn ; 2, wheat and seed to grass ; 3 and 4, grass; 5, 6, 7, grain crops with clover or rape among the grain, on at least one occasion, and plowed under as green-manure.
4-course : 1, Corn ; 2, peas ; 3, barley ; 4, clover.
5-course : 1, Wheat ; 2, clover and timothy, mown ; 3, meadow ; 4, oats ; 5, mangels or pota toes.
1, Wheat ; 2, wheat ; 3, oats ; 4, wheat ; 5, flax. 1, Corn ; 2, wheat ; 3, wheat ; 4, oats.
1, Barley ; 2, barley ; 3 and 4, clover.
1, Barley ; 2, corn ; 3, oats ; 4, corn ; 5, wheat. Last four poor.
Mississippi.
1, Cotton, with annual vetch in winter, contin uously.
1, Corn and cowpeas continuously.
2-course : 1, Oats and cowpeas ; 2, cotton. 2-course : 1, Corn and cowpeas ; 2, cotton. 3-course : 1, Cotton ; 2, corn and cowpeas ; 3, oats and cowpeas.
3-course. Poor : 1, Cotton ; 2, cotton ; 3, corn (poor).
Missouri. (M. F. Miller.) Systematic rotation not largely followed.
Common rotation on black loam : Corn for one to five years, followed by oats or wheat, seeded with timothy and clover (left for two or three years).
Stony loam : 1, Corn; 2, corn ; 3, wheat; 4, clo ver or clover and timothy, in which case the timothy may again be cut the fourth year.
Montana. (A. Atkinson.) 6-course : 1, Wheat ; 2, clover ; 3, oats ; 4, sugar-beets ; 5, barley ; 6, peas.
3-course : 1, Wheat and barley ; 2, clover ; 3, roots and peas.
Most common one : 1, Barley ; 2, clover ; 3, clover ; 4, oats or wheat ; 5, wheat.
New Hampshire. (F. W. Taylor.) Few definite sys tems in use.
Dairying, clay loans. 6-course. Good : 1, Corn ; 2, corn ; 3, oats and peas, with grass and clover seeds ; 4, 5, 6, hay or pasture.
Loams. 7-course. Good : 1, Corn ; 2, corn ; 3, potatoes ; 4, oats and peas ; 5, 6, 7, clover and timothy for hay or pasture.
8-course : 1, Corn ; 2, potatoes ; 3, barley seeded with clover and grasses ; 4, clover hay; 5-8, grasses, used for hay or pasture.
Upland light loam, used by Prof. J. W. Sanborn, Gilmanton, N. H.: 1, Corn ; 2, oats and peas ; 3, clover ; 4, potatoes ; 5, Hungarian (millet); 6, 7, timothy (hay); 8, pasture.
New Jersey. (E. B. Voorhees.) General farming. Medium clay loam. 4-course : 1, Corn ; 2, oats ; 3, wheat ; 4, timothy and clover.
Heavy clay loam. 5-course : 1, Corn ; 2, oats ; 4, 5, hay.
Same. 4-course : 1, Corn ; 2, wheat ; 3, 4, hay.
Loam. 4-course : 1, Corn : 2, potatoes ; 3, wheat ; 4, hay, timothy and clover.
3-course : 1, Potatoes ; 2, wheat ; 3, clover. Has been used by T. B. Terry, Ohio, for several years, but he is abandoning it now, since a clover crop every third year is too frequent.
Sandy loam. 4-course : 1, Corn ; 2, tomatoes ; 3, white potatoes (early); 4, clover.
Light sandy loam. 4-course : 1, Corn ; 2, sweet potatoes ;' 3, rye ; 4, clover.
Dairying. Clay loam. 3-course : 1, Corn (cut for silage); 2, rye ; 3, timothy and clover.
Medium loam. 3 years : 1, Corn (cut for silage); 2, oats and peas, followed by millet or cowpeas ; 3, rye.
New York.
Gravel loam: 1, Potatoes, with rye sown in fall; 2, rye, with clover sown in spring and plowed under for potatoes. No manure or fertilizers used. Successful for past twelve years.
3-course : 1, Beans ; 2, wheat ; 3, clover.
4-course : 1, Potatoes or corn ; 2, beans ; 3, wheat and sown to clover ; 4, clover cut for hay.