Successful farming : a ready reference on all phases of agriculture for farmers of the United States and Canada . 2. A* 6 7 . A \ Al f. The Farm Rearranged for Economy in Cultivation and Savingin Waste Land and possible to have fields uniform in character of soil, for this facilitates uni-formity in treatment and rate of seeding. Rotation Groups.—Under present conditions, the arrangement offields on a farm most generally becomes a question of remodeling the lay out a farm from the beginning, the fields should be free from crops,but since this is usually
Successful farming : a ready reference on all phases of agriculture for farmers of the United States and Canada . 2. A* 6 7 . A \ Al f. The Farm Rearranged for Economy in Cultivation and Savingin Waste Land and possible to have fields uniform in character of soil, for this facilitates uni-formity in treatment and rate of seeding. Rotation Groups.—Under present conditions, the arrangement offields on a farm most generally becomes a question of remodeling the lay out a farm from the beginning, the fields should be free from crops,but since this is usually not feasible, it is necessary to change the plan bydegrees. It will usually require two or three years to establish the changeand satisfactory rotation. Sometimes it will take four years to do it. Where two rotations are advisable, two groups of fields are called for,one for the major rotation consisting of large fields, and the other for theminor, made up of small fields. The latter should lie adjacent to the 1 Courtesy of The Macmillan Company, N. Y. From Farm Management, by Warren. 854 SUCCESSFUL FARMING farmstead. The small fields, if not immedia
Size: 930px × 2688px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, booksubjectagriculture, bookyear
