22O FORAGE CROPS. 



2. In preparing the soil for a crop which is to 

 come after the artichokes, the plowing of the land 

 should be deferred in the spring until the more 

 advanced of the volunteer plants have reached the 

 hight of twelve inches or more. If the plowing is 

 done with due care, many of the artichokes that 

 thus sprouted will die. The cultivation given to 

 the crop that is then planted, along with some hand 

 hoeing, should destroy the artichokes in a single 

 season. 



3. Owing to the great yield that artichokes 

 are capable of producing, it is not necessary to plant 

 a large area unless where the herd of swine kept is 

 numerically large. 



