Archive image from page 110 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 OUTLINE OF CROP MANAGEMENT 83 Fig. 109. The mowing machine,' 1823. Invented and patented by Jeremiah Bailey, Chester county, Pa. 'It has been exten- sively used and approved of during the last season. . . . It is understood that it will mow ten acres per day.' The cutting is done by a horizontal revolving circular scythe, working against a whetstone. I hope in the course of a few
Archive image from page 110 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 OUTLINE OF CROP MANAGEMENT 83 Fig. 109. The mowing machine,' 1823. Invented and patented by Jeremiah Bailey, Chester county, Pa. 'It has been exten- sively used and approved of during the last season. . . . It is understood that it will mow ten acres per day.' The cutting is done by a horizontal revolving circular scythe, working against a whetstone. I hope in the course of a few years, we shall make a more respectable figure as farmers than we have hitherto done.' Fallowing. A significant part of Washington's letter is the statement that land was 'respited' for eighteen months. He meant that the land was allowed to lie idle or fallow. It is an old notion that land 'rests' when allowed to go wholly uncropped ; and, in fact, it is true that the succeeding crops may be better for the fallow, but in most instances equally good results can be secured by other means and without the loss of a year's crop. The fallow was a regular part of early rotation practices. Fallowing was employed by the Jews, Greeks and Romans. It is common in many large parts of Russia and other countries to-day. In special cases and in regions of insufficient rainfall, fallowing is still an allowable practice ; but in general it belongs to a rude and unresourceful type of agriculture. In most of the humid regions of this country the practice, if employed at all, is diminished to 'summer fallowing,' whereby the period of idleness is reduced to a minimum. The summer fallow was formerly often employed in order to fit the land for wheat. The land was kept in more or less clean and free tillage from spring till fall, without crop, for the purpose of destroying weeds and of putting it in good condition of preparation. With improved tillage implements and well-planned rota- tions, these spec
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