. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. Fig. 885. Muskmelons for local market. 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 muskmelons 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 tim
. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. Fig. 885. Muskmelons for local market. 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 muskmelons 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- rant 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 â 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 of many truck crops is the harvesting and preparing for market. In the case of many crops, however, the harvest comes at a time when it does not interfere with the handling of the regular farm crops. For example, melons and tomatoes normally ripen after the corn is laid by, the wheat and oats harvested and the hay made, and usually may be disposed of before fall-plowing and the corn h
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