. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. FARM MANAGEMENT PRACTICE OF CHESTER COUNTY, PA. 9 and manufactured here, and there is still a factory making certain kinds of farm machinery at Kennett Square. Until some time after the Revolutionary War there were no well- established and well-recognized rotations practiced by the farmers. The soil had originally been covered by timber, and it was customary to clear out an area of this, crop the land mainly to corn, wheat, rye, barley, and garden crops for a series of years until the yields became very low, when new l
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. FARM MANAGEMENT PRACTICE OF CHESTER COUNTY, PA. 9 and manufactured here, and there is still a factory making certain kinds of farm machinery at Kennett Square. Until some time after the Revolutionary War there were no well- established and well-recognized rotations practiced by the farmers. The soil had originally been covered by timber, and it was customary to clear out an area of this, crop the land mainly to corn, wheat, rye, barley, and garden crops for a series of years until the yields became very low, when new land would be cleared and the old land left to grow up in grasses, which were used for pasture. During the closing years of the eighteenth century a system of crop rotation began to be established, a good deal of enthusiasm hav-. Fig. 4.—Soil map of survey area. (From report of Bureau of Soils, U. S. Department of Agriculture.) ing been aroused for it, and much was said and written about "the new way of ; Thus in 1796 a Chester County farmer, writing to a friend in England, said: " Where we had Indian corn the year before is dunged by spreading this broadcast and planted to barley, oats, and flax. * * * Barley ripens about July 20, flax sooner, and oats later. We plow again in August, and sow to wheat and rye in September. * * * We sow clover the following ; It will later be seen that this is essentially the rotation which is now practically universal in this region, the only change being the sub-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States. Dept. of Agriculture. [Washington, D. C. ?] : The Dept. : Supt. of Docs. , G. P. O.
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