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can hardly be improved upon. The full amount of 700 pounds per acre will 

 probably not be needed where a systematic rotation is practiced, and do not 

 let any story of the injurious effects of clover or peas deter you from their 

 use as preparatory crops to tobacco. The story of their injurious effects has 

 been handed down, and accepted as a fact, by those too ready to get an excuse 

 for bad farming. Some peanut growers have the same prejudice against 

 the legumes, probably because someone sometime had a poor crop after a crop 

 of peas, and at once the word went out that peas are destructive to peanuts; 

 and the tale has been believed by men too lazy to investigate for themselves. 

 Many mone of the old wives' tales in farming have grown up in the same way. 



