Archive image from page 113 of Cyclopedia of farm crops . Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada cyclopediaoffarm00bailuoft Year: 1922, c1907 Four-row beet cultivator of today. his stock to secure manure to raise a better crop. In stock farmer has the great advantage of the horticul- latter must resort to special practices or special pur cing power of his land, (8) Rotation is a cleaning process. Cer- tain weeds follow certain crops. Chess and cockle are common weeds in old wheat-lands. The life-cycle of these plants is so
Archive image from page 113 of Cyclopedia of farm crops . Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada cyclopediaoffarm00bailuoft Year: 1922, c1907 Four-row beet cultivator of today. his stock to secure manure to raise a better crop. In stock farmer has the great advantage of the horticul- latter must resort to special practices or special pur cing power of his land, (8) Rotation is a cleaning process. Cer- tain weeds follow certain crops. Chess and cockle are common weeds in old wheat-lands. The life-cycle of these plants is so similar to that of wheat that they thrive with the wheat; and the seeds may not be removed from wheat-seed' in the ordinary cleaning process. These weeds. are soon eliminated by the grass-course in the rotation, or by some clean-tillage course. Most weeds are eradicated in the course of a good rotation; in fact, a rotation cannot be considered to be good unless it holds the weeds in check. With crops which are not grown as a part of a rotation, as rice, it is sometimes necessary to interject another Insects and the maintaining of fertility, the live- turist or other special farmer, for the chases in order to maintain the produ- Fig. 121. stubble digger, to fit land for a succeeding crop, 1906 follow all crops. Nearly all continu- crop for a year or two in order to clean the land, plant diseases follow certain crops. There are no insects or diseases that Therefore a rotation cleans the fields of many of these troubles and pests, ous-cropping schemes run into these difficulties sooner or later. A short and sharp rotation, for example, is the best means of contending with wire- worms. It is not uncommon sometimes to find onions failing year after year in the best onion regions. The trouble is likely to be due to pests or diseases. Two or three years of celery or other crop may clean up the difficulty. The horticulturist is particularly liable to suffer from insects and plant d
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