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tobacco, sugar-beets. In the corn-belt, the chief crops 

 are corn, clover and timothy hay, and oats. These fit 

 together well. In the winter wheat belt of Kansas and 

 Nebraska, there is very serious conflict between wheat, 

 alfalfa, and corn, as previously discussed. 



Cotton, corn, and tobacco are the great crops for the 

 South. The work on these conflicts seriously, particu- 

 larly in the northern part of the cotton region. Farther 

 south cotton and corn go together better. Cotton in- 

 terferes with most other crops. This is one reason why 

 cotton farming has so often been a one-crop system. 



In the North Atlantic States, corn conflicts with potatoes 

 (see Figures 25 and 33), apples, truck crops, and, to some 

 extent, with field beans and cabbage. For these reasons, 

 corn growing, except in small areas for the silo, is on the 

 decline, not because it does not pay, but because the other 

 crops often pay better. The profits from these crops 

 will often much more than buy the corn that the same 

 work would produce. 



The work on corn and sugar beets conflicts, so that few 

 sugar beets are grown in the best corn regions. It has 

 been shown that sugar beets grow well and factories have 

 been built, but corn pays better, so that the factories have 

 usually been moved to regions where corn is not so suc- 

 cessful. 



86. Distribution of labor on oats. The spring-sown 

 oat crop seems to be singularly free from conflicts (Figs. 

 29 and 30). For this reason, oats are extensively grown 

 in regions where they are the least profitable crop in the 

 rotation. Since there is nothing better to do, many 

 farmers raise oats when they get small pay for the time 

 so spent. Oats conflict with barley, with apple spraying, 

 and some other crops, but only a comparatively few farmers 



