. Annual report of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University and the Agricultural Experiment Station. New York State College of Agriculture; Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). i6i6 The Cornell Reading-Courses lo. A regular rotation of farm crops makes the farm work systematic. Irregular rotations are better than none at all; but when a definite rotation is established and the cultivated fields on a farm are managed in con- fomiity to this defim'te plan, labor can be employed more economically than otherwise. " Plan y
. Annual report of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University and the Agricultural Experiment Station. New York State College of Agriculture; Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). i6i6 The Cornell Reading-Courses lo. A regular rotation of farm crops makes the farm work systematic. Irregular rotations are better than none at all; but when a definite rotation is established and the cultivated fields on a farm are managed in con- fomiity to this defim'te plan, labor can be employed more economically than otherwise. " Plan your work and work your plan " is a saying which applies best to farms on which a systematic definite rotation of crops is practiced. Of course, a fixed rotation will not always be advisable. Where market conditions fluctuate and climate is somewhat variable, there should be some choice in one or more courses of a rotation. It may be better, for example, to refrain from plowing up a good meadow. ^^^^-^^ "-^.i,^^ ^^?^?.,. ?" ?"4:'' Fig. 253.— The third consecutive corn crop grown on this field. The first and second corn crops were fairly good, but the soil is poorly adapted to continuous corn culture for a late-planted corn crop in a season when hay is selling for a high price and corn planting has been deferred by cold wet weather. ROTATION AXIOMS I. Every rotation should be adapted to the soil on which it is grown, to the prevailing climate, and to the purpose for which crops are grown. Some soil types are more easily managed than others and the planning of a suitable rotation may be a simple or a difficult task. Climatic condi- tions cannot be controlled, but weather emergencies can be anticipated and deprived of their worst discouragement by a flexible, though definite, rotation of crops. The needs of farm live stock for feed and bedding, the market price of purchased feeds, and the opportunity for profitable. Please note that these images are extracted
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