CHAPTER XI 



CROPS AND CROPPING 



IN the succeeding chapters I propose to take up the 

 practical method of cultivating the various American 

 farm crops. I hope to give somewhat in detail the 

 best methods adopted in the various sections where these 

 crops are grown. Of course, any series of instructions for 

 any crop cannot be made hard and fast rules for every 

 condition. It is assumed that the reader will be able to 

 take the suggestions and adapt them to his own conditions. 



Many of these crops are grown in different climates 

 and on a great variety of soils. While the soil on a farm 

 may not be the ideal one for a certain crop, it will be found 

 that no farmer can afford to entirely ignore the crop that 

 for various reasons has become the chief money crop of 

 the section. 



Many Northern farmers in changing to a location in 

 the South, see the wasted condition of a great deal of the 

 soil in the tobacco and the cotton regions, and at once 

 jump to the conclusion that the culture of cotton or tobacco 

 has been ruinous to the soil, and they conclude that if they 

 are to restore the fertility of the soil they have located 

 upon they must ignore these crops. 



But long experience has shown that in some sections 

 the soil is well adapted to the cultivation of some of the 



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