Archive image from page 724 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 TRUCK-GROWING TRUCK-GROWING 655 grain crop, a rotation of wheat, clover and melons is highly satisfactory ; or, if corn also is grown, the rotation may be extended one year, and the corn planted on the clover sod. In case clover XJJ Fig. 885. Muskmeions lor locai marKct. does not thrive in the region, cowpeas are sown immediately after the wheat is harvested, and they leave the land i
Archive image from page 724 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 TRUCK-GROWING TRUCK-GROWING 655 grain crop, a rotation of wheat, clover and melons is highly satisfactory ; or, if corn also is grown, the rotation may be extended one year, and the corn planted on the clover sod. In case clover XJJ Fig. 885. Muskmeions lor locai marKct. does not thrive in the region, cowpeas are sown immediately after the wheat is harvested, and they leave the land in ideal condition for melons. On a clay soil in regions where clover does not thrive and wheat is not grown, but where muskmeions constitute an important money crop, the following rotation has given exceptionally good results: corn, cowpeas, melons, timothy. The melons are heavily manured, and the thorough tillage required by this crop leaves the land in ideal condition for seeding to timothy immediately after the melon harvest. Early tomatoes might be substituted for melons in the same rotation with almost as good results. In regions where manure is not obtainable, and the distance from large cities is too great to war- runt its shipment by rail, truck crops are some- times grown with commercial fertilizer as the source of plant-food. In such cases, the supply of humus in the soil must be kept up by the plowing under of green crops. It may be necessary to plow under a crop of cowpeas instead of harvesting it preparatory to growing a crop of melons or toma- toes, or to sow the land to rye after removing the cowpeas, and plow this under the following spring. For growing between the trees in young or- chards, truck crops are highly desirable, since they demand thorough tillage early in the season, do not shade the trees as would a crop of corn, and can be removed from the land in plenty of time to sow a cover-crop. The largest item of labor connected with the growing and handling
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