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In arranging for a system of rotation, we should 

 aim to grow such crops and under such culture 

 as will keep the soil well supplied with humus, 

 or plant food. 



No exact rules can be laid down as to the order 

 in which crops should be planted in rotation, but it 

 should be remembered that some plants by nature 

 feed near the surface (like corn, for instance), 

 while others, take clover, for example, draw the 

 most of their nourishment from deep down in the 

 soil. 



The object should be always to avoid following 

 one deep-rooted crop by a similar one; taking 

 great care to alternate them with others as con- 

 stantly as possible. It is well, when practicable, 

 to follow a slow-growing crop with one of quick 

 growth, or vice versa. No root crop should follow 

 one of a similar character; nor should vines 

 follow vines. Alternation is always beneficial. 

 Onions are very generally regarded as an excep- 

 tion to this general rule, and to some extent they 

 doubtless are so; but I have not found it advisable 

 to grow them on the same ground many con- 

 secutive years, as they are far more likely to 

 become maggoty, and otherwise diseased, than 



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