. Productive soils; the fundamentals of successful soil management and profitable crop production. Soils. 192 NITROGEN, PHOSPHORUS AND POTASSIUM "Certain things are to be sown, not with the hope of any immediate profit bemg deiived from them, but with a view to the following year, because being plowed m and left m the ground, they render the soil afterwaids moie fruitful.'' Crops for Green Manuring.—Many crops may be used for plowing under legumes, rye, buckwheat, rape, oats, etc. The. Fig 128 —A. Hairy vetch B, Crimson clover (U S D A ) clovers and vetch (Fig. 128) can be seeded one year
. Productive soils; the fundamentals of successful soil management and profitable crop production. Soils. 192 NITROGEN, PHOSPHORUS AND POTASSIUM "Certain things are to be sown, not with the hope of any immediate profit bemg deiived from them, but with a view to the following year, because being plowed m and left m the ground, they render the soil afterwaids moie fruitful.'' Crops for Green Manuring.—Many crops may be used for plowing under legumes, rye, buckwheat, rape, oats, etc. The. Fig 128 —A. Hairy vetch B, Crimson clover (U S D A ) clovers and vetch (Fig. 128) can be seeded one year with grain and turned under in the fall or in late spring. Alsike clover is suit- able for low lands. Mammoth clover is well adapted for poor soils to get rank growth. Cowpeas, soybeans (Fig. 129), rape, and crimson clover^ may be sown in between the rows when a cultivated crop is "laid by.''^ 3 Crimson clover is commonly grown as a green manurmg and forage crop along the Atlantic seaboard from New Jersey to the Gulf States * "Laid by" means last 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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