18G FARMING ON FACTORY LINES 



stubbles for tares and tare stubbles for winter greens. 

 Just exactly what proportionate area of these crops 

 should be inter-cropped is a matter of judgmeat for 

 each individual farmer to determine. 



LIMITATION OF IiNTER-CHOPS 



If too great an area is inter-cropped, the result most 

 likely will be, too great a pressure of work, chiefly 

 in early summer and late autumn, or at the time of 

 the year when most of the inter-cultivation is under- 

 taken. In most cases the writer finds that the nearest 

 approach to the happy medium seems to be to inter- 

 crop half the corn area and half the tare break, the 

 remaining halves in each case being cultivated and 

 sown after the respective crops have been harvested 

 and garnered. 



Inter-cropping is also of great use in the case of 

 either spring sown tares or corn, especially so in late 

 districts. With such crops and in such districts it 

 is generally very difficult to get a large area of a corn 

 or vetch stubble tilled in time to follow with another 

 crop; but where spring-sown corn is sown so as to 

 form a nurse crop for tares, or spring-sown tares is 

 sown so as to admit of inter-cropping with winter 

 greens, the inter crops can be sown so as to be estab- 

 lished in the land, before either the corn or the tares 

 are harvested. 



Again, in the southern and eastern districts of Eng- 

 land, or in low rainfall areas generally, it often 

 happens that a corn stubble is so dry after harvest as 

 not to permit of ploughing and cultivation with horse 

 implements. Under such conditions inter-cropping is 

 of special value, as the need for autumnal cultivation 

 of the stubble is thus avoided. 



