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FARM DEVELOPMENT 



be recorded. There should be adopted a scheme of 

 rotating the crops, the general features of which should 

 be adhered to, with modifications in the less important 



matters as 

 season, market, 

 labor and other 

 farm conditions 

 may require. 



The central 

 feature of the 

 field plan should 

 be a scheme of 

 rotation of 

 crops. Most 

 farms should 

 be divided into 

 two portions, 

 and each por- 

 tion divided into 



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Some farms 



should have only one set of fields, and some should be 

 divided into more than two parts, with each part divided 

 up into a series of fields adapted to a given scheme of crop 

 rotation. Thus two fields accommodate a two-year 

 rotation, three fields a three-year rotation, four fields a 

 four-year rotation, etc. Thus about the same acreage 

 of each class of crops is provided each year ; also all the 

 advantages of crop rotation to keep the soil productive ; 

 and farming becomes an orderly business in which 

 records can be kept and where profits and losses on 

 each enterprise can be more definitely known. That a 

 systematic rotation of crops may and should be planned 

 and successfully inaugurated has been amply demon- 



Figure 43E. Harlan Farm. A six-year rotation projected on 

 six twenty-acre fields, and a three-year rotation on three ten-acre 

 fields. The arrows following corn from 1907, on Field C, on the 

 successive fields to 1912 on Field D, shows the arrangement of 

 succession of the fields in the six-year rotation. 



