Seedtime and harvest : a graphic summary of seasonal work on farm crops . es from August lo to September 15. The beginning of harvest for those coun-fn ^.n^P^m^w^V-^ pinks Lady Washington, and navy beans also varies from Au| September lo The Colorado bean harvest begins the latter part of \u-uCt or r-irlv fL^^Plf?^^- ^^K 9^ P^S^°^ ^^^^^ this work does not conflict appieciabv with oU erfarm ouerations. hut in thp irrio-QtoH +>,^ „ 1^*,- _^ ri^ iT •, ^^, ^*^ rvest may farm operations, but in the irrigated districts the completTonofTh^rbran haJSn .nH^v some extent with pot
Seedtime and harvest : a graphic summary of seasonal work on farm crops . es from August lo to September 15. The beginning of harvest for those coun-fn ^.n^P^m^w^V-^ pinks Lady Washington, and navy beans also varies from Au| September lo The Colorado bean harvest begins the latter part of \u-uCt or r-irlv fL^^Plf?^^- ^^K 9^ P^S^°^ ^^^^^ this work does not conflict appieciabv with oU erfarm ouerations. hut in thp irrio-QtoH +>,^ „ 1^*,- _^ ri^ iT •, ^^, ^*^ rvest may farm operations, but in the irrigated districts the completTonofTh^rbran haJSn .nH^v some extent with potato, digging or in some cases with beet lifting. Michi-gan and >ew lork bpan growers begin harvesting from August 20 to September 20 themost common date being September 1. In the bean-growing counties of Michi-an thet«?L ^^^l^ -^ rV^^ T^J-^^ t^^ beginning of sugar-belt harvest. Beans and p^-it^.\°P*^t «?[? ^* ^t f^^ ^^^^° f»f t^e year in some New York districts, cirnliarvest or silo filling may also demand attention at this time. 48 Seedtime and Harvest,. i\ Figs. 63 and 64.—Plug and export tobacco (burley and heavy dark tobacco) aregrown mainly on the hea-^^ clay soils of the Ohio River valley. Tobacco for cigarwrappers, binders, and fillers is grown in scattered localities from western Floridato New England and Wisconsin, mainly, however, in the Connecticut valley of NewEngland. Smoking and chewing tobacco is extensively grown in the Piedmont andcoast regions of Virginia and the Carolinas,. mostly on sandy loam soils. Tobacco issown in Ijeds early in the spring and later transplanted. In the more southern dis-tricts these beds are prepared from about February 1 to March , and in the morenorthern districts from al)Out March to April 1. Transplanting in Florida beginsabout the 21st of March and in the most northern localities in New York and Wisconsinit begins as late as June 10. In the central districts, where the bulk of the tobacco isgrown, the transpla
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