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crop. If you have a field especially adapted to your 

 money crop, use the field for the purpose, but adjust it to 

 a rotation that maintains the fertility that even 

 increases it. 



In the rotation when to apply barnyard manure. Some 

 prefer barnyard manure for the leading money crop, and 

 that is good practice. But other things may enter into 

 the problem. Where much barnyard manure is made, 

 and where a pasture or grass crop precedes some money 

 crop, like corn or cotton, it is well to apply manure to 



CROP ROTATION AND MIXED FARMING GO HAND IN HAND 



the pasture land, spreading as made and applied. This 

 is the easiest way of handling the manure also. Every 

 season of the year finds the pasture ready, and not only 

 is the pasture improved, but the money crop following it 

 gets its full value just the same. 



A good many years ago Yeddes wrote : "A pasture 

 treated in winter to raw, un fermented manure will be so 

 strong in grass, and the soil will become so rich, that, 

 whether plowed the following spring for wheat or after 



