The Old Rotation (Auburn, Alabama)

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Historic soil fertility experiment site listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).

Built: 1896
Designer: Prof. John F. Duggar
Area: 90 acres
Date added to NRHP: 1/14/1988
Notes: The Old Rotation is a soil fertility experiment on the Auburn University campus. The experiment, which started in 1896, is the third oldest ongoing field crop experiment in the United States, the oldest continuous cotton experiment in the world, and was the first experiment to show that a cotton/legume crop rotation would allow soil to support a cotton crop indefinitely.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Rotation
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Coordinates:   32°35'29"N   85°29'13"W
This article was last modified 10 years ago