forty-acre fields, as follows:

First year--Corn (and legume catch crop).

Second year--Part oats or barley, part cowpeas or soy beans.

Third year--Wheat.

Fourth year--Clover, or clover and timothy.

Fifth year--Wheat, or clover and timothy.

Sixth year--Clover, or clover and timothy.

This plan may be a grain system where wheat is grown the fifth year,
only clover seed being harvested the fourth and sixth years, or it
may be changed to a live-stock system by having clover and timothy
for pasture and meadow the last three years, which may be best for a
time, perhaps, if we find it too hard to care for eighty acres of
wheat on poorly drained land.

In somewhat greater detail the system may be developed we hope about
as follows:

First year: Corn, with mixed legumes, seeded at the time of the last
cultivation, on perhaps one-half of the field. These legumes may
include some cowpeas and soy beans and some sweet clover, but that
is not yet fully decided upon.

Second year: Oats (part barley, perhaps) on twenty acres, cowpeas on