West Virginia.
Buckwheat up to 6 years without change. (Pres ton county.) 1, Buckwheat : 2, wheat ; 3 and 4, grass and clover. (Marshall county, etc.) 1, Buckwheat ; 2, corn ; 3, wheat. (Tucker county.) Wisconsin.
1, Buckwheat ; 2, rye ; 3 and 4, grass and clover. (Juneau county).
1, Potatoes ; 2, potatoes ; 3, buckwheat ; 4, rye; 5, corn. (Juneau county.) 1, Potatoes ; 2 and 3, grain ; 4 and 5, grass and clover. (Waupaca, etc., counties.) 1, Potatoes ; 2, corn ; 3, potatoes; 4 and 5, grass and clover.
1, Potatoes ; 2, wheat ; 3 and 4, clover.
1, Corn ; 2-4, tobacco.
Wyoming. (B. C. Buffum.) Rotations not generally used.
1, Oats on sod ; 2, potatoes ; 3, wheat, seeded to alfalfa ; 4 to 9, alfalfa.
2-course : 1, Field peas, harvested or pastured by lambs ; 2, grain.
1, Legume, either peas for one-year crop or alfalfa for three to five years ; 2, roots, either turnips or beets for stock or potatoes for sale ; 3, grain.
3-course : 1, Wheat ; 2, beans ; 3, fallow. In use before the Roman invasion, and in some places as late as 1870.
Norfolk 4-course. Introduced by Lord Townsend in 1730 on his Norfolk estates. Soil sandy and poor : 1, Turnips, fed on the land by sheep ; 2, barley with clover seeds ; 3, clover hay; 4, wheat. Mutton, wheat and barley are the products sold. This course is expensive in labor, and it has been found to be impossible to grow clover so frequently as once in four years on many soils.
Suffolk : 1, Turnips ; 2, barley ; 3, rye-grass and clover ; 4, peas ; 5, barley.
Light calcareous soils : 1, Turnips ; 2, barley ; 3, peas ; 4, wheat ; 5, turnips ; 6, roots ; 7, barley ; 8, sainfoin for ten or more years. (Alfalfa is sometimes used instead.) 1, Peas ; 2, oats ; 3, turnips ; 4, barley with grass and clover seeds ; 5, meadow.
Peaty soils : 1, Turnips or cabbage ; 2, oats ; 3, turnips or cabbage ; 4, oats ; 5, clover ; 6, wheat. (Everything fed to stock except wheat.) 1, Potatoes (sold for seed) ; 2, oats ; 3, turnips or cabbage ; 4, turnips or cabbage ; 5, oats, with grass and clover seed ; 6, meadow. (Everything
fed to stock except potatoes.) Heavy peaty land : 1, Cabbage ; 2, oats ; 3, beans or clover ; 4, wheat ; 5, cabbage or mangels for feed ; 6, oats.
Light soils : 1, Turnips ; 2, barley; 3,4,5, clo ver and rye-grass ; 6, peas ; 7, rye ; 8, wheat.
Common Hertfordshire system : 1, Turnips ; 2, barley ; 3, clover ; 4, wheat ; 5, peas or oats.
Sir Mordaunt Martin's course one hundred years ago : 1, Turnips ; 2, barley ; 3, clover ; 4, wheat ; 5, potatoes, mangels or vetches ; 6, turnips ; 7, barley ; 8, trefoil and rye-grass ; 9, peas ; 10, potatoes, mangels or vetches.
1, Turnips ; 2, barley ; 3 and 4, grass and clover ; 5, vetches ; 6, wheat.
Heavy loam : 1, Beans or oats ; 2, turnips ; 3, barley ; 4, clover or winter vetches ; 5, wheat ; 6, turnips or mangels ; 7, barley with grass and clo ver: 8, grass and clover for three dr more years.
Old system : 1, Oats ; 2, beans ; 3, wheat ; 4, grass and weeds for four or five years.
1, Oats ; 2, turnips ; 3, barley with grass seeds ; 4-6, grass and clover.
1, Peas; 2, barley; 3, clover; 4, wheat; 5, turnips; 6, barley, with grass seeds; 7-10, grass and clover. Clay : 1, Fallow ; 2, wheat or barley ; 3, peas or beans.
1, Fallow ; 2, wheat ; 3, clover ; 4, oats.
In use over one hundred years ago : 1, Fallow ; 2, wheat ; 3, oats ; 4, fallow ; 5, wheat.
Another method : 1, Fallow; 2, wheat ; 3, clover; 4, clover ; 5, wheat or other grain.
1, Fallow or roots, manured ; 2, oats with grass seeds ; 3, pasture ; 4, oats ; 5, beans, manured ; 6, wheat.
The Rothamsted course is : 1, Rutabaga ; 2, barley ; 3, beans or clover ; 4, wheat.
Ayrshire, Scotland.
1, Oats ; 2, oats ; 3, meadow ; 4-7, meadow or pasture.
Clever-sick land : 1, Turnips; 2, barley; 3, grass seeds for one or two years ; 4, wheat ; 5, barley or oats ; 6, peas ; 7, wheat.
1, Turnips or potatoes ; 2, barley ; 3, clover ; 4, wheat ; 5, turnips or mangels ; 6, barley; 7, vetches or beans ; 8, wheat.