Archive image from page 723 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 __ _ 'fm Fig. 883. Hotbeds for starting track crops. the directors of the association usually determining at the beginning of the season what markets will be employed, though at any time during the season cars may be loaded for other markets, if a sufficient Fig. 884. View on market-garden farm at Irondequoit products will necessarily continue to be handled through the large cities a
Archive image from page 723 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 __ _ 'fm Fig. 883. Hotbeds for starting track crops. the directors of the association usually determining at the beginning of the season what markets will be employed, though at any time during the season cars may be loaded for other markets, if a sufficient Fig. 884. View on market-garden farm at Irondequoit products will necessarily continue to be handled through the large cities as distributing points, rath-ir than consigned to small towns at a distance from the point of production. Trucking iii relation to farm management. As an adjunct to general farming, truck-grow- ing is 1 'coming an important factor in the agri- culture of many localities ; and it is on that basis that it is destined to hold a permanent place among the activities of rural people rather than as a system of single cropping partaking of the na- ture of bonanza farming, except possibly in the case of a few special crops demanding peculiar- ities of soil not favorable to the production of general farm crops. Specialization in its closest sense is a frequent outgrowth of good trucking soil and climate coupled with good transportation facilities. In general, truck crops demand heavy manuring and very thorough tillage. If a paying truck crop is to be grown, it is usually necessary so to enrich and work the soil that it will be richer in plant- food and in better condition for the production of subsequent crops after the truck crop has been grown, than it was before preparations were made for growing the truck crop. So well recognized is this fact by land owners in certain regions that they will allow a tenant the use of a piece of land for a full season without the payment of rent, pro- vided the area is to be planted to certain truck crops. A system of rotation which includes a truck cro
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