. Elements of farm practice, prepared especially for teaching elementary agriculture;. Agriculture. FARM MANAGEMENT 323 but simply disking it well so as to make a good seed bed. After this grain crop was harvested the land would be plowed in the fall, so that it would have time to settle down and become compact by spring. The next spring it would be sown to grain again, but, with the grain, grass seed, timothy and clover would be sown to make the crop for the two years following. Meadow.âWe have learned that grass crops as meadow and pasture are beneficial to the soil, as they clean it of Past
. Elements of farm practice, prepared especially for teaching elementary agriculture;. Agriculture. FARM MANAGEMENT 323 but simply disking it well so as to make a good seed bed. After this grain crop was harvested the land would be plowed in the fall, so that it would have time to settle down and become compact by spring. The next spring it would be sown to grain again, but, with the grain, grass seed, timothy and clover would be sown to make the crop for the two years following. Meadow.âWe have learned that grass crops as meadow and pasture are beneficial to the soil, as they clean it of Pasture Oats /-^.FO a. Oat 3 a. / Pasiure 2-Oruin j>-p a. 3--Corn '^^'* â ^ Cracn >CraAs S Ontss /S3a rd. Cr-aas Z Pasture JGraLn 4 Corn, >i s Gracn K "^ Grass ^ 87'a K (ft Orrzm K/r 2 Grass i/^sture "Qrain, iCorn BT'a < rd . Corn ZCrain^Cr 3 Oruss Pasture i Grain Permaffent fifeadow y rd Gram ZCorn 3 Oram 'tur adrass 5 Pasture zs'a era j-*.9rti. Figure 147.âA 160-acre farm in southeastern Minnesota, cropped in 1904. Com- pare with the reorganization plan in Figure 148. , Figure 148.âThe 160-acre farm reorganized for a five-year rotation. Note con- venient shape and arrangement of fields, and that there is little change in the acreage of crops grown. The fields are simply arranged better and a systematic rotation planned. weeds and add vegetable matter. This rotation provides for having each field in grass two years out of five. The first year the grass would be cut for hay and the second year it would be pastured. Pasture.âPasturing land occasionally, as provided in this rotation, is beneficial to the soil, as practically all the crop grown during the year is left on the field as manure, and the development of the roots adds vegetable matter also. Pasturing usually puts land in good condition for other crops. One can haul manure upon it during the summer, when the other fields are growing crops. This manure plowed under with the pasture sod ma
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