. Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada. Agriculture -- Canada; Agriculture -- United States; Farm produce -- Canada; Farm produce -- United States. OUTLINE OF CROP MANAGEMENT 87. Fig. 123. A modern 11-foot seeder. -to the support of live-stock if he is a (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.
. Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada. Agriculture -- Canada; Agriculture -- United States; Farm produce -- Canada; Farm produce -- United States. OUTLINE OF CROP MANAGEMENT 87. Fig. 123. A modern 11-foot seeder. -to the support of live-stock if he is a (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 - 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. (b) 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. (e) 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 be rented for pasturage, are also determinants. It is not profitable to grow the cereals and some other crops on small areas; in 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
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