CHAPTER XV 

 CROP-ROTATIONS 



The Farm Scheme. Notwithstanding some 

 of the theorizing that does not commend itself to 

 the practical man, farm management is taking on 

 the form of a science. It involves the organiza- 

 tion of a farm for best results, and in the scheme 

 that should be worked out for any particular farm 

 the most important feature is the crop-rotation. 

 The selection of crops is controlled by so many 

 local considerations, including the personal likes 

 and dislikes of the farmer, that very rightly the 

 kinds of rotation are innumerable. The order in 

 which crops may be grown with most profit is less 

 variable, and yet even here local conditions may 

 quickly derange the scheme of a theorist. There 

 is, however, such right relation of facts to each 

 other that we are getting a working philosophy, 

 and the individual farmer can bend practice to 

 his own liking in considerable degree, and yet not 

 compel plants to do their part at a disadvantage. 

 He has much liberty in the order of their growing, 

 without endangering profits materially. Theo- 



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