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A Five Tears' Rotation

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Parent Issue
Day
18
Month
November
Year
1892
Copyright
Public Domain
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A correspondent writing to The Rural New Yorker says: We practica a five years' rotation, sowing timothy in tho fall and clover ! in the spring. After the wheat has been harvested, the portion seeded Í down lies in grass for two }-ears. By mixing red and alsike clover, some of I the latter ia found alive the second year, but nearly all of the red disappears after the n'rst season. After two annnal crops of grass have been cut, the piece is manured and plowed in spring. A art i 4?lanled to cora, the reit to pot'atoes. CdU f olio w in the spring of the next year, followed by wheat in the fall. Two hundred poimds per acre of commercial fertilizer on the wheat is the oniy fertilizer used, except stable and hen niannre. The latter is the most lasting in effect of all I have ever used. It is most excellent for corn. It can be spread on the sod which is to be plowed the ..ollowing spring at any time after the grasa is ent, or it may be applied after the plowing and harrowed in. lts effect on grass was plainly visible in one place four years after a portion of a corn field had been thns manured.

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News