. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. OUTLINE OF CROP MANAGEMENT 87. Fig. 123. A modem 11-foot seeder. (10) Rotation-farming develops a continuous and consecutive plan of business. It maintains the continuity of farm labor, and reduces the economic and social difficulties that arise from the employing of many men at one time and few men at another time. Rotation practices. Just what rotation scheme shall be adopted in any case must depend on many local and special considerations. What some of these considerations are may be briefly discussed. (a) The rotation must adapt itself
. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. OUTLINE OF CROP MANAGEMENT 87. Fig. 123. A modem 11-foot seeder. (10) Rotation-farming develops a continuous and consecutive plan of business. It maintains the continuity of farm labor, and reduces the economic and social difficulties that arise from the employing of many men at one time and few men at another time. Rotation practices. Just what rotation scheme shall be adopted in any case must depend on many local and special considerations. What some of these considerations are may be briefly discussed. (a) The rotation must adapt itself to the farmer's business—to the support of live-stock if he is a dairyman or stock-farmer, to the demands of the grain trade if he is a grain-farmer, to the cotton market if he is in a cotton region. (6) It must adapt itself to the soil and the fertility problem. Often the chief purpose of a rotation is to recuperate worn and depleted lands. In such case, the frequent recurrence of leguminous humous crops is preeminently desirable. (c) The fertilizer question often modifies the rotation — whether manure can be pur- chased cheaply and in abundance or whether it must be made on the place. (d) The kind of soil and the climate may dictate the rotation. (c) The labor supply has bearing on the character of course. The farmer must be careful to plan to keep the number of plowings and the amount of cultivating within the limits of his capabilities. (/) The size of the farm, and whether land can rented for pasturage, are also determinants. It is not profitable to grow the cereals and some other crops on small areas; in fact, rotation-farming is chiefly successful with large-area crops. (g) In the future more than in the past, the rotation must be planned with reference to the species of plants that will best serve one another, or produce the best interrelationship results. (h) The rotation must consider in what condition one crop will leave the soil for the succeeding crop, and how
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