SYSTEMS OF CROPPING 



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hoods where they are best acquainted. They may tell 

 whether they could be improved or not. Some of them 

 should be written on the blackboard and discussed as to the 

 tillage required, effects on weeds, and other points. 



Fig. 49. — Oats and peas sown in early spring, ready to cut for use as green 

 feed or for making hay by the middle of June. Corn may be grown on the same 

 ground in the same season. Harvesting the oats and peas shown in the upper 

 figure. The stubble may be plowed or disked and the field quickly planted to corn. 

 (Experiment Station, N. J.) 



Succession Cropping. — This is the growing of one crop 

 after another on the same land in the same season. For 

 example, radish, lettuce, tomatoes. Let the pupils tell what 

 plans of cropping they have seen in use either in gardens 



