CHAPTER XXVIII 

 ROTATION OF CROPS 



"No branch of husbandry requires more sagacity and 

 skill than a proper rotation of crops, so as to keep the 

 ground always in heart, and yet to draw from it the 

 greatest possible profit" : so wrote Lord Kames a great 



CROP ROTATION 

 The wisest plan for the maintenance of fertility 



many years ago. And with every form of scientific in- 

 vestigation, with all improvements in agriculture im- 

 proved soils, better bred plants, more perfected tools of 

 tillage, cultivation, and harvesting there has come into 

 use no method that contributes quite so much as a wise, 

 well-systematized scheme of crop rotation to the mainte- 



