76 MUCK CROPS 



crops such as celery and lettuce, nor, as a 

 rule, are good onions raised the first year. 

 The best practice is to grow corn or potatoes 

 the first year, and if the muck is in good 

 shape the following spring, some of the other 

 crops can be grown. If the muck still needs 

 some subduing the second year, better grow 

 the other crop if corn the first year, po- 

 tatoes the second, or vice versa. 



A man with limited capital should always 

 go the longest but safest way in cropping 

 muck. A word of caution is pertinent at 

 this time. Go slow at the beginning, know 

 the conditions by feeling your way before 

 you speculate. Muck is a different propo- 

 sition froin any other form of farming. 



