THE FARM SCHEME 



celery, potatoes or hay. Assume for the 

 moment it is adapted to cabbage and that 

 by one or more seasons of preparation an 

 enormous crop of cabbages may be cured. 

 This fact is of little value unless suffi- 

 cient quantity is raised and the process 

 can be repeated annually. Cabbages cannot 

 be grown again on this particular piece of 

 land for from four to six years on account of 

 club root. If the farmer does not have other 

 areas which he can bring into cabbages 

 year after year, for from three to five 

 years, then he becomes a failure as a cab- 

 bage raiser. Even a perennial, like alfalfa 

 or asparagus, should form a part of the gen- 

 eral scheme of crop production if the most 

 satisfactory results are to be obtained. 



There are two general questions at the 

 basis of all farm schemes : ( i ) How to ob- 

 tain a fairly uniform succession of cash 

 products year after year, and (2) how to 

 keep up or improve the fertility of the soil 

 economically while doing so. In other 

 words, how to keep the investment from 



