South Dakota. (J. S. Cole.) Rotation not general.
In northern and western parts of state: Corn, po tatoes or other intertilled crop, followed by wheat.
In southern and eastern parts of state : Barley or oats grown instead of wheat.
South Dakota Experiment Station. The following is a list of twenty-four rotations which are now, and have been, on trial for the past ten years : 1, Flax; 2, barley ; 3, millet ; 4, wheat ; 5, corn.-1, Wheat; 2, oats ; 3, peas (fed off by stock); 4, wheat ; 5, roots.-1, Oats ; 2, wheat ; 3, fallow ; 4, wheat ; 5, corn.- 1, Wheat ; 2, barley ; 3, peas, plowed under for manure ; 4, wheat ; 5, corn.-1, Wheat ; 2, oats ; 3, corn ; 4, flax ; 5, millet, fed off by stock.-1, Wheat ; 2, barley ; 3, peas ; 4, wheat ; 5, corn, fed off by stock.-1, Wheat ; 2, corn ; 3, wheat 4, oats.-1, Wheat ; 2, corn ; 3, oats ; 4, milkt.-1, Wheat ; 2, corn, land manured ; 3, w'.eat ; 4, oats.-1, Wheat ; 2, corn ; 3, oats.-1, Oats ; 2, fallow ; 3, wheat.-1, Barley ; 2, millet ; 3, wheat.-1, Barley ; 2, peas ; 3, wheat.- 1, Wheat ; 2, wheat ; 3, fallow.--1, Wheat ; 2, wheat; 3, corn.-1, Wheat ; 2, fallow.-1, Wheat ; 2, corn.
-1, Wheat ; 2, vetch.-Wheat continuously, no manure.-Wheat continuously, manured every five years.-Wheat continuously, manured every three years.-Wheat continuously, manured every year.
-1, Wheat, seeded to awnless brome-grass ; 2, brome-grass ; 3, brome-grass ; 4, flax ; 5, wheat ; 6, corn.-1, Wheat, seeded to awnless brome-grass; 2, brome-grass ; 3, brome-grass ; 4, wheat ; 5, corn.-(For details of these rotations, see South Dakota Bulletins, Nos. 79, 98, and Yearbook, United States Department of Agriculture, 1903, pp. 447-452.) Tennessee. (H. A. Morgan.) 1, Wheat and cowpeas. (Same rotation is used year after year ) 2-course : 1, Wheat and cowpeas ; 2, corn. 4-course : 1, Wheat seeded to clover ; 2 and 3, clover ; 4, corn.
1, Cotton ; 2, corn with cowpeas sown in it ; 3, oats followed by cowpeas the same year. 1, Corn ; 2, wheat ; 3, grass for two to three years.
5-course : 1, Cowpeas, followed by rye (plowed under the following spring); 2, cowpeas ; 3, corn ; 4, wheat ; 5, clover or cowpeas.
1, Wheat ; 2, clover ; 3, clover (pastured) ; 4, wheat, peas ; 5, corn (peas planted in the corn); 6, oats followed by cowpeas.
Common dairy-farm rotation : 1, Corn or sor ghum or corn and sorghum ; 2, wheat, seeded to clover ; 3, clover.
Utah. (IV. M. Jardine.) Rotation little considered in the state.
Sandy loam, 5-course :1, Sugar-beets ; 2, peas and oats for forage ; sugar-beets ; 4, oats, seeded to alfalfa ; 5, alfalfa, two crops mown, third plowed under.
1. Corn (manured) ; 2 sugar-beets ; 3, peas for forage ; 4, sugar-beets ; 5, wheat, preferably fol lowed by alfalfa, making a six- or seven-year course.
Virginia. Rotations long established.
1, Irish potatoes (2 crops) ; 2, sweet-potatoes ; 3, sweet-potatoes ; 4, corn. (Accomac county.) 1, Potatoes followed by corn ; 2, oats, followed by cowpeas.
1, Corn; 2, wheat ; 3, clover ; 4, wheat ; 5, oats or pasture.
1, Corn ; 2, wheat or oats ; 3, wheat ; 4, hay for two to nine years.
In use in 1800, and previously (Farmers' Regis ter, Va.): 1, Corn ; 2, wheat or oats; 3, land allowed to grow weeds, which were grazed.
On poorer land : 1, Corn ; 2, natural cover of weeds. either grazed or burned oft.
4-course, along James river, A. D., 1800: 1, Corn or oats ; 2, wheat and clover ; 3, clover grown as green-manure and plowed under ; 4, wheat.
1, Tobacco • 2, wheat ; 3 and 4, clover.
1, Tobacco ; 2, wheat.
1, Corn with cowpeas or crimson clover sown among ; 2, peanuts.
1, Corn with cowpeas ; 2, peanuts; 3, cotton ; 4, cotton.
1, Corn (soiling crop) ; 2, oats or other grain ; 3-5, hay and pasture.
Colonel Taylor's rotation, about one hundred years ago : 1, Corn ; 2, wheat and clover : 3 and 4. clover, neither mown nor grazed. His idea was that this was necessary to prevent depletion of the soil.
The Eastern Shore rotation consisted of three crops in two years : 1, Maize ; 2, oats, followed by Magothy Bay beans (also called partridge peas) which were plowed under.