OUTLINE OF CHAPTER FOUR 

 FIELD, ORCHARD, AND GARDEN CROPS 



Crop Raising: 



Conditions determining crop : 

 Climate, soil, labor, market 

 Profits lie in 



Cultivating well, in proper way, and at proper time 

 Avoiding waste and unnecessary expense 

 Forage Crops: 

 Uses: 



Supply green and dry feed for stock 

 Some grasses : 



Blue grasses, meadow fescue, redtop or herd's grass, orchard grass, 



timothy, Bermuda 

 Corn, sorghum 

 Some legumes: 



Clovers, cowpeas, alfalfa, vetches, soy beans, Canada field peas, 



velvet beans, peanuts 

 Cutting and curing hay 

 Cereals : 

 Uses: 



Grain for food 

 Stalks and leaves for forage 

 Requirements : 



Fertile soil, clay or loam preferred 

 Much moisture 

 Improved by 

 Seed selection 

 Good tillage 

 Cross breeding 



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