Archive image from page 120 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 DISCUSSION OF FARM MANAGEMENT 93 certain fields may be kept more profitably in grass than in any other crop ; but such fields will not enter into the regular crop rotation system. A convenient and desirable time to manure land is while it is being used as meadow or pasture. If the manure is applied a year or so before breaking, it will stimulate the growth of grass and cause a greate
Archive image from page 120 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 DISCUSSION OF FARM MANAGEMENT 93 certain fields may be kept more profitably in grass than in any other crop ; but such fields will not enter into the regular crop rotation system. A convenient and desirable time to manure land is while it is being used as meadow or pasture. If the manure is applied a year or so before breaking, it will stimulate the growth of grass and cause a greater production of hay or pasture. Meanwhile, the soil is enriched by an increased root-growth and the formation of more humus. Besides these beneficial results, some plant-food will be supplied by the manuring for the use of the first crop that is grown on the breaking, at a time when available plant-food is much needed, because the larger part of the fertility in new breaking is in an unavailable condition and cannot be used readily by the new crop. Soils in which the organic matter and humus are deficient may be improved in fertility and texture by green-manuring. A cheap and practical method of green-manuring is to plant a crop adapted to this purpose (the annual legume crops, such as cowpeas, soybeans, field-peas and vetches being preferred) in the grain stubble immediately after harvest. The method at the Kansas Experiment Station is to follow the binder directly with the drill; thus, when the harvest is finished the field has been replanted. Cowpeas, rape or sorghum in this way usually make a good stand and Cora Wheat ..; 10,- il '• o n o ' o - O ;o o OQ lo o o o ;oooo o o o Clover an excellent growth, and furnish forage or pasture, or the crop may be plowed down for green-manure or left as a winter cover. It is necessary, in carrying out permanent plans for crop rotation, to have fields of nearly equal area, in order to grow about the same acreage of the se
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