CROPPING SYSTEMS FOR THE BLACK LANDS OF TEXAS. 



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These chancres are expected to produce the money crops— wheat 



;ind cotton— on n smaller..ar)ei^. and tlio increased productiveness of 



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Pig. 9.— Brabham cowpeas ktowti near Hutchins, Tex., in 1910, on black land infested with root-rot. 



Fig. 10.— Mammoth soy beans grown on black land near Cleburne, Tex., in 1910. They were sown in rows 

 3 feet apart and eultivafd. They received practically no rain from planting to maturity. Tioot-rot 

 was present, but did little damage. ' 



the soils which it is thought will follow is dei)endcd upon to keep a 

 larger number of live stock and thus matorinlly enlar<;e the income. 



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