Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Southern Planter, Vol. 2: Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, and the Household Arts; July, 1842
The mode at present practised by many of cultivating land in corn, then in wheat or oats, and next year in weeds, or grazed, and again in com, 550. Has already killed most of our lands, and in fact, James River low grounds of the richest kind have for a time been impoverished by this very system.
A five field rotation of three grain crops in five years, (one only of corn) and two years in clover seems to be the system now most gener ally approved, and is no doubt well adapted to our lands and mode of cropping. The rotation might run corn, oats, clover, wheat, clover - or leaving out oats after corn, two fields in wheat each year - the one after corn, the other on clo ver fallow - and one corn crop every five years and that after clover.
Upon a six field rotation the land would per haps improve still more rapidly, and this system might be adopted upon plantations when there is land enough to make corn sufficient upon one sixth of the surface. Here, of course, each field would go into corn only once in six years - two wheat cr0ps each year, or a wheat and cat cr0p, and three years in clover and pasture, in the six years. As to the particular manner in which the crops are made to succeed each other in each particular rotation although it is a matter of much importance yet it must be in?uenced and deter mined by so many accidental circumstances, that no general rule can be given, and each one must determine for himself.
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