94 FARMING ON FACTORY LINES 



early in the following summer to permit of the sowing 

 of winter greens in time to have the latter fit for 

 feeding in autumn and winter. 



Pretty much the same happens throughout the 

 entire rotation. Every crop is behindhand, and the 

 work gets into that detestable condition known in 

 Great Britain as being '.' on the drag," and in 

 Ireland, in the more descriptive language of " pulling 

 the devil by the tail." 



It is to avoid this state of affairs that I 

 wish to emphasise the importance of being early 

 both with the sowing and saving of the corn crop — 

 the first crop usually sown in a Continuous Cropping 

 rotation. Even where an early harvest is induced 

 (for that, in substance, is really what this new 

 method of corn-growing means) the sowing of an 

 extensive area of corn stubble is not always possible. 



The labour of autumn cultivation can, however, be 

 lightened by adopting the method of inter-cropping, 

 and the use of quicker working implements, both of 

 which are dealt with in another chapter. 



