. Cyclopedia of farm crops, a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada;. Farm produce; Agriculture. OUTLINE OF CROP MANAGEMENT early enough to allow the sowing of wheat in the fall. However, barley is considered to be a better preparation crop for wheat, as it comes off the land earlier and does not deplete the moisture content of the soil so much; it therefore usually allows the making of a better seed-bed for the wheat. It must be remembered that the rotation is not confined to a single field. If a perfect system is practiced, there must be as many equa
. Cyclopedia of farm crops, a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada;. Farm produce; Agriculture. OUTLINE OF CROP MANAGEMENT early enough to allow the sowing of wheat in the fall. However, barley is considered to be a better preparation crop for wheat, as it comes off the land earlier and does not deplete the moisture content of the soil so much; it therefore usually allows the making of a better seed-bed for the wheat. It must be remembered that the rotation is not confined to a single field. If a perfect system is practiced, there must be as many equal fields concerned in the rotation as there are years in the course, so that every crop is grown on some part of the farm every year. The farm is therefore laid off into shifts or blocks. It is unusual, however, that a farm is suiSciently uniform in surface and soil to allow of such a perfect. Fig. 126. The common form of spring-tooth hay-rake. arrangement, and consequently the output of the various crops varies from year to year. Of course, it is not expected that the entire farm is to be laid under a rotation system. Parts of it will be needed for gardens, orchards, woods, permanent pasture, and for special crops. Not all the crops of the farm are adapted to rotation. The cereal and hay crops are most adaptable. Cotton ordinarily is not a part of a rotation scheme; and this is one reason why cotton-lands so soon become "; The adopting of a short and good rotation, in which cotton would be the pivot crop, would no doubt add immeas- urably to the wealth of the south- ern states. Some crops occupy the land for a series of years and therefore do not often become parts in a rotation. Of such is alfajfa, now largely grown in the West and rapidly working its way into the East. But even this crop will probably tend more and more to occupy a place in rotation courses; and in the South (and even in other regions) this may be enforced in order to overcome dis- ease a
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