4-course: 1, Wheat, manured and seeded to clover; 2, clover hay ; 3, potatoes, cabbage or corn ; 4, oats.
5-course : 1, Corn, manured ; 2, oats ; 3, rye, manured, with grass seeds ; 4 and 5, grass and clover hay.
Heavy loans, 4 crops in three years : 1, Rye or oats, with clover ; 2, clover, cut once, land plowed and sown to buckwheat ; 3, potatoes.
3-course : 1, Corn ; 2, wheat or oats ; 3, timothy and clover for hay.
4-course : 1, Rye, seeded to clover, etc.; 2, clover and timothy; 3, cnrn or potatoes ; 4, oats or barley.
4-course : 1, Wheat, manured, seeded to clover and timothy ; 2, clover and timothy (hay), manured before plowing ; 3, corn or oats ; 4, barley or beans.
Clay, 6-course : 1, Corn ; 2, oats ; 3-5, hay ; 6, pasture.
5-course : 1, Beans, cattle beets or cabbage ; 2, oats, with timothy and clover ; 3, meadow ; 4, meadow ; 5, pasture.
Cornell University 4-course. Very successful for over thirty years. Dairy-farm, with one-third of area in permanent pasture. Clay loam : 1, Corn (manured), cut for silage; 2, oats; 3, wheat (ma nured), and timothy and clover sown ; 4, meadow, cut twice.
Dairy-farm : 1, Corn, cut for silage ; 2, oats and peas ; 3-5, grass and clover, (Delaware county.) 1, Strawberries planted ; • 2, strawberries har vested in June, land plowed and sown to rutabagas, followed by rye, which is plowed under the next spring for strawberries.
1, Corn ; 2, cabbage ; 3, peas, followed by buck wheat ; 4, oats ; 5, wheat, with grass seeds ; 6, meadow.
Used in western part of Long Island, mentioned by General Washington in 1790: 1, Indian corn on clay, manured in the hill or scattering the dung broadcast ; 2, oats or flax ; 3, wheat, with what manure can be spared, seeded with 4 to 6 pounds of clover and a quart of timothy ; 4, meadow, left down three to six years.
For dairy-farm, soil grave] loam ; 33 per cent of the land permanent pasture, the remainder cropped as follows : 1, Corn, manured, cut for silage, clover to be sown at last cultivation ; 2, land manured, plowed and sown to peas for canning; land disked after peas come off and sown to clover, which is grazed in fall ; 3, land plowed, sown to barley or oats with alfalfa, grain crop cut for hay; 4, 5, 6, alfalfa, mown three times a year and manure applied in fifth and sixth years ; 7, corn, cut for silage, with clover sown ; 8, clover mown twice and manured in fall, or oats ; 9, potatoes, beans, sugar-beets or cabbage ; 10, wheat, manured, with grass and clover seeds ; 11, clover and grass, mown twice ; 12, pasture. Some straw or other
material will need to be purchased for bedding. Part of the alfalfa will be mown green for soiling the cattle. Surplus hay may be sold, also peas, potatoes, wheat, to furnish cash to buy concen trates.
North Carolina. (C. K. McClelland.) Cotton-growing districts : 2 years : 1, Cotton, followed by crimson clover ; 2, corn with cowpeas.
3 years : 1, Cotton, followed by crimson clover ; 2, corn ; 3, wheat, followed by cowpeas.
3 years. Cotton and grain : 1, Rye, wheat or oats ; 2, cotton ; 3, corn. A poor rotation, no legumes included.
3 years. Cotton and grain : 1, Cotton ; 2, corn with cowpeas ; 3, wheat, followed by cowpeas. Better than one above.
Tobacco-growing districts. 2 years : 1, Tobacco ; 2, wheat, followed by cowpeas.
4 years : I, Clover ; 2, corn with cowpeas ; 3, tobacco ; 4, wheat seeded to clover.
Grain-growing. 2 years : 1, Corn with cowpeas, latter not harvested ; 2, wheat, followed by cow peas or crimson clover.
Corn and potatoes : 1, Corn with cowpeas, fol lowed by rye ; 2, Irish potatoes, followed by vetch or crimson clover.
Corn and potatoes. 4 years : 1, Corn with cow peas ; 2, oats with red clover ; 3, clover ; 4, Irish potatoes.
Forage. 5 years : 1, Corn ; 2, oats with red clover ; 3, clover ; 4, cowpeas for seed or hay ; 5, wheat.
1, Cotton ; 2, corn ; 3, peanuts.
1, Corn with cowpeas or crimson clover ; 2, peanuts ; 3, oats with cowpeas ; 4, peanuts.
1, Corn with cowpeas ; 2, peanuts ; 3, cotton ; 4, cotton.
North Dakota. (J. H. Shepperd.) Rotations not settled.