CHAPTER XIX 

 ROTATIONS 



THE market gardener, owing to the 

 high price of the land which he is 

 working, cannot rotate the crop of corn 

 with other low money-producing crops. 

 He must necessarily rotate his corn crop 

 with vegetable crops, as returns that are 

 fairly high must be made each year from 

 his expensive land. The general condition 

 is, then, that corn is rotated with the root 

 crops, such as beets, carrots, parsnips, or 

 it may be rotated with spinach, lettuce, 

 celery, and some other vegetables. 



The truck grower on his less expensive 

 landlcan rotate the sweet corn crop with 

 vegetables, sometimes potatoes and cab- 

 bage, or he can use corn in rotation with 

 farm crops. The corn may be followed by 

 a small grain, such as oats, following that 

 with grass for one or two years, then plowing 

 down and using corn on the land again. 



In both cases there seems to be a great 

 need for rotation on the land. We find 



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