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CHAPTER XXIX.— Classification of Crops: 

 Cereal and Fodder Crops 



147. Classification. — There are so many kinds of 

 crops grown on the different farms of this country 

 that to attempt to describe each one separately would 

 require too much space and time. Fortunately for our 

 purpose many of these crops are alike in their manner 

 of cultivation and growth, and we may arrange the 

 more important farm crops into a few classes. 



The grain crops, Indian corn, wheat, oats, rye, bar- 

 ley, etc., are all placed in one class and called cerkai. 

 crops. Crops grown for hay, fodder, or pasture are 

 all called forage crops. Crops grown for their roots 

 or tubers, such as potatoes, turnips, beets, etc., are 

 called root and tuber crops; and the crops not in- 

 cluded in any of these classes are described as mis- 

 cellaneous crops. We have then: 



1. Cereal or Grain Crops: Indian corn, wheat, oats, 

 rye, barley, rice, etc. 



2. Forage Crops: clovers and grasses for hay, fod- 

 der, and pasture. 



3. Root and Tuber Crops: beets, turnips, potatoes, 

 etc. 



4. Miscellaneous Crops : tobacco, cotton, fruit crops, 

 garden crops, etc. 



148. Cereals. — The three important cereal crops of 

 this country are Indian corn, wheat, and oats. Rico 



