. Productive soils; the fundamentals of successful soil management and profitable crop production. Soils. 332 FARM MANAGEMENT AND CROP ROTATION Application and Illustrations.—^A few typical illustrations are here given in the form of problems to show how rotations may be established and how certain soil and crop problems can best be solved through {3) w acre^ O^Ts (seeded/ 1^) /o acres Timothy (5} /o acres Corn (6) /o acres Oofs (seeded/ /o acres T//vothy and C/ci/er 8 acres Corr Orc/?ara 6arafer 4a acres Per/rrare/it Pasfi/re \ A Fig. 215.—Conditions when rotation was first conside


. Productive soils; the fundamentals of successful soil management and profitable crop production. Soils. 332 FARM MANAGEMENT AND CROP ROTATION Application and Illustrations.—^A few typical illustrations are here given in the form of problems to show how rotations may be established and how certain soil and crop problems can best be solved through {3) w acre^ O^Ts (seeded/ 1^) /o acres Timothy (5} /o acres Corn (6) /o acres Oofs (seeded/ /o acres T//vothy and C/ci/er 8 acres Corr Orc/?ara 6arafer 4a acres Per/rrare/it Pasfi/re \ A Fig. 215.—Conditions when rotation was first considered. Problem I.—^Plan a fixed rotation for a dairy farm which is already stocked. Size of farm—120 acres, all silt loam. Corn, oats and clover are to be grown. About 100 to 125 tons of silage, about 500 bushels of corn, at least thirty tons of clover, and about 800 to 1,000 bushels of oats are necessary to meet the feeding Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Weir, Wilbert Walter, 1882-. Philadelphia London, J. B. Lippincott company


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