Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-02-28

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center on one side, and it is supposed
that a public road passes this side
of the tract.
OF these five acres half an acre is
utilized for the house and yard and
the barn and barn lot. This space is
ample for what we have in view. One
half acre is devoted to garden, one
and one-half acres to orchard and the
remaining two acres for a paddock
into which to turn the stock for eXer-
else.
BY juGicious management these two
acres can also be made to furnish
some pasture and some soiling crops,
The other seven tire-acre tracts are
to be devoted to a seven-year rota-
ton. When this rotation is in full
swing the crops on the farm for a
given year will be as follows: Field A.
potatoes; field b, three acres of cab
bage and two acres of onions; field G,
corn; field D, cowpeas; field e, corn;
field F, clover; field G., clover.
The next year each of these crops
would move to another field as fol
lows: The potatoes would go to field
G., which vas in clover the year be-
fore. The cabbage and onions next
year would go to field B. The corn on
field c would go the next year to field
b. Cowpeas in field D would go the
next year to field C. The corn in field
E would go to D, while E would be
sown in clover and F remain in clover.
The next year each crop Would move
to another field in the same manner,
SO that each year potatoes are sown
after second year clover, cabbage and
onions are planted after potatoes, etc.
The potatoes, cabbage and onions on
this farm would form the market
crops. The two fields of corn, the
field of cowpeas and the first years
seeding of clover would furnish twenty
acres of forage for the live stock.
while the second yea clover would
furnish pasture for the live stock dur
ing the summer.
In each of the two corn fields some
winter grain, such as wheat or rye.
could be sown early in August at the
time when the corn is laid by, that
is, when cultivation of the corn
ceases. This wheat would furnish fall
and winter pasture for the live stock.
In the corn field which is to be fol
lowed by clover the wheat would be
turned under very early in the spring
in preparation for sowing the clover.
In the corn field which is to be fol-
lowed by cowpeas the wheat could re-
main until the second year clover field
is ready to turn stock on, at which
time it might be plowed up and own
to cowpeas. We thus have pasture
during the whole year in sections
where the seasons permit winter pas
turing,
In states that are too far north for
the cowpeas, soy beans may be sub
stituted for them, and in regions too
far north for soy beans, oats can be
used on this field, the other crops in
the rotation remaining the same. Com
mercial fertilizers would be required
for the potatoes, cabbage and onions
There is plenty of good literature
published by the department of agri-
culture and by a good many of the
state experiment stations relative to
the cultivation and fertilization of po-
tatoes, cabbage and onions. and the
reader is referred to this literature for
further Information concerning the
growing of these crops.
The above cropping system in addi.
ton to the three money crops would
furnish forage M pasture for about
six head of stock. Two work horses
would be sufficient to do the work on
the farm. This will permit keeping
-four dairy COWS.
One fact to which ] would call at.
tention is that in the marketing of pc.
tatoes, cabbage and onions it is not
necessary for the farmer to run to
market every day for several. weeks
as would be the case with most other
kinds of truck crops, especially straw
berries and tomatoes.