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as they get ready. This is a wasteful plan, except in certain 

 localities where there is a railway station close by and a ready 

 market. The ploughing &c., is done by hired bullocks, and 

 no crop is used for feeding farm animals, even the straw of 

 cereals being sold off. 



(5) All-stock-and-no-crop system is the opposite of 

 Prout's Plan. The land is mostly let down in grass. Such 

 foods as cake, beanmeal, chaff &c., are bought. The dung is 

 returned to the meadows and the liquid manure is used for 

 irrigating the meadows. On poor land and on hill sides this 

 system may be followed. 



(6) Irrigation system. Water, liquid manure, or town 

 sewage, if available in abundance, this system may be fol- 

 lowed. For market gardens, for meadow pastures and for 

 green crops, this system is adapted, but not for growing 

 cereals and pulses. Manures need not be applied where 

 there are special facilities for irrigation, as the water itself 

 contains sufficient plant food. 



(7) Mixed arable-and-stock-farming is the safest system 

 for most agricultural lands. 



(8) Near large towns market-gardening and dairy farm- 

 ing pay better. 



(9) Fruit-farming and jam and jelly-making are best 

 adapted for poor lands away from towns but not far removed 

 from railway station or river &c., leading to a large 

 town. 



543. The crops to be grown on any particular soil are 

 to be judged from what are actually grown in the neighbour- 

 hood and also from the following general directions: 



(a). Clay soils are suited for rice, arahar, sugarcane, 

 wheat, oats, beans, peas, linseed, jute, cabbages, grasses, 

 fruits and trees generally. 



(b}. Open and free loams are specially suited for barley, 

 juar, turnips, and root crops generally, tobacco, maize, tea, 

 earth-nut and most English vegetables. 



