1, Wheat ; 2, flax ; 3, oats ; 4, barley ; 5, fallow. (Benson county.) 1, 2, Flax ; 3, 4, small grain (Ramsey county.) 1, Corn ; 2, flax ; 3, wheat ; 4, oats. (Cass county.) 1, Wheat ; 2, wheat ; 3, flax ; 4, wheat ; 5, oats. (Grand Forks county.) Ohio.
1, Tobacco ; 2, wheat ; 3 and 4, grass and clover. Also, 1, Corn ; 2, beardless barley ; 3-6, alfalfa. (J. E. Wing.) 3-course : 1, Tobacco ; 2, wheat ; 3, clover. 3-course: 1, Corn, manured; 2, wheat; 3, clover. 4-course : 1, Corn ; 2, soybeans or cowpeas ; 3, wheat ; 4, clover.
5-course : 1, Corn ; 2, oats ; 3, wheat ; 4 and 5, timothy and clover.
T. B. Terry's 3-course : 1, Potatoes ; 2, wheat ; 3, clover. Has been considerably used in England. (See Bavaria, p. 107.) This rotation " keeps the land moving." It repeats clover every third year and thereby becomes a great rejuvenator of the land.
Oklahoma. (F. C. Burtis.) Rotation not general. 3-course : 1, Corn ; 2, oats ; 3, wheat and cow peas.
5-course : 1, Castor-beans ; 2, kafir corn; 3, cot ton ; 4, oats ; 5, wheat and soybeans.
1, Corn ; 2, kafir corn ; 3, sorghum. (Greer county.) Wheat and kafir corn the same year continuously. Kafir corn continuously.
Oregon. (James Withycombe.) Many practice ro tation.
Dairying : 1, Corn, cut for silage and wheat drilled in between rows ; 2, wheat ; 3, clover ; 4, clover ; 5, wheat.
2-course : 1, Barley or oats ; 2, vetch.
1, Wheat ; 2, oats ; 3, corn or fallow. (Marion county.) 1, Wheat ; 2, oats ; 3, oats ; 4, grass and clover.
Pennsylvania. (G. C. Watson.) Rotation common and long practiced.
Clay loam : 1, Corn ; 2 oats ; 3, wheat or rye ; 4, clover and timothy for one or two years.
5-course : 1, Corn ; 2, tobacco ; 3, wheat ; 4, wheat ; 5, clover and timothy.
5-course : 1, Potatoes ; 2, oats ; 3, wheat ; 4, wheat ; 5 clover and timothy.
4-course : 1, Tobacco ; 2, oats ; 3, wheat ; 4, meadow. (Clinton county.) Gravelly soils : 1, Corn ; 2, oats ; 3, clover ; 4, oats ; 5, clover and timothy.
Gravelly soils : 1, Corn ; 2, oats ; 3, rye, clover and timothy ; clover and timothy are left down as long as desirable, frequently two or three years, the second and subsequent crops being largely timothy.
John Beale Bordley, on the rotation of crops, 1792, Philadelphia, Pa.: Old English : 1, Fallow ; 2, wheat ; 3, peas or beans ; 4, barley. Maintained on half the farm for
ten or twenty years, the other half being in grass, then vice versa.
New English (suggested) : 1, Barley ; 2, clover ; 3, wheat ; 4, clover : 5, peas, beans or turnips.
Old American systems : 1, Maize ; 2, wheat or rye ; 3, rubbish pasture.
1, Maize ; 2, naked fallow ; 3, wheat ; 4, rubbish pasture.
Yields of wheat six to eight bushels per acre.
Suggested systems : 1, Maize ; 2, wheat :r bar ley ; 3, clover ; 4, rye or winter barley ; r_ and 6, clover.
1, Maize 2, beans ; 3, barley ; 4, clover ; 5, wheat ; 6, clover for one or two years.
Montgomery county, 5-course. In use over one hundred years : 1, Corn on sod, limed and plowed in fall or spring ; 2, oats ; 3, wheat with timothy sown in fall and red clover in spring ; 4, clover and timothy mown ; 5, pasture.
The old York and Lancaster rotation is similar to the above, but the grass is left down longer. A successful rotation long practiced in parts : 1, Wheat ; 2, rye ; 3, clover ; 4, wheat ; 5, corn ; 6, oats ; 7, wheat ; 8, clover.
Porto Rico. (D. W. May.) Rotation not general in the island.
Low land : Sugar-cane for three to eight years, and then Para grass cut and sold.
A better rotation would be : Sugar-cane, rotated with cowpeas or alfalfa, the latter being fed and the manure returned to the soil.
Rhode Island. (H. J. Wheeler.) 3-course : 1, Winter rye, with clover sown in spring ; 2, clover hay ; 3, potatoes.
4-course : 1, Winter rye, with red clover sown in spring ; 2, clover hay ; 3, maize on clover sod ; 4, potatoes.
5-course : 1, Rye, seeded with grasses and clover ; 2, hay ; 3, hay ; 4, corn ; 5, potatoes.
6-course : 1, Corn, on grass sod ; 2, potatoes ; 3, winter rye, seeded to red clover, timothy and red top ; 4-6, grass. When the land is poor it is bet ter to begin the rotation with rye.
Market-garden : 1, Sweet corn (Cory), followed by beans, with clover sown at last cultivation as a cover-crop ; or beans followed by corn (Crosby), with clover as cover-crop ; 2, clover plowed under, tomatoes planted and rye sown as cover-crop in fall ; 3, potatoes (early), followed by cabbage, or early cabbage followed by carrots ; 4, spinach, fol lowed by celery, followed by spinach again, or transplanted lettuce followed by celery.