. Rural school agriculture . he clover lives over winter and furnishes hay thenext year. In the fall or early next spring the clover is plowedand the corn planted. i\Ianure, as indicated by (m) on the chart,is applied to the field and plowed under for the corn. A lane leadsout to the field to allow the stock to reach any or all fields whendesired. The iiiiiior rotation is made up of (1) potatoes, [2) speltz orother grain, (3) clover pasture, {4) fodder corn, (5) potatoes prepare the soil for the speltz or other grain. Thegrain serves as a nurse crop for the clover. The clover is nse
. Rural school agriculture . he clover lives over winter and furnishes hay thenext year. In the fall or early next spring the clover is plowedand the corn planted. i\Ianure, as indicated by (m) on the chart,is applied to the field and plowed under for the corn. A lane leadsout to the field to allow the stock to reach any or all fields whendesired. The iiiiiior rotation is made up of (1) potatoes, [2) speltz orother grain, (3) clover pasture, {4) fodder corn, (5) potatoes prepare the soil for the speltz or other grain. Thegrain serves as a nurse crop for the clover. The clover is nsedfor pasture the next year. The spring of the next year the cloveris plowed under and the field is sown to fodder corn. In the fifth RURAL SCHOOL AGRICULTURE 77 field the garden is planted. These five crops change places on thefive fields each year, while the orchard remains permanently onthe sixth. This rotation is intended to furnish the pasture foryoung stock and green cut crops for the stock when the pas-tures are Field I-8 A /^-
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