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being one year grazed and then put to corn, the maximum 

 yield may be reasonably expected. This winter manuring 

 costs the least of all methods, and probably saves the 

 most of the value of the manure of any known to 

 me." 



Crop rotation and mixed farming go hand in hand. 

 There are kinds of farming where mixed farming is not 

 practical, trucking and market gardening being examples 

 of farming systems that are not concerned with live stock 

 and, hence, with crop rotation except to a limited extent 

 only. Then, too, there are sections where the plow cannot 

 be used at all. And so these lands may be given over to 

 trees and to pasture. But the greater part of the country 

 is adapted to the production of a great variety of crops, 

 and to the support at the same time of large numbers of 

 live stock. Wherever the latter conditions prevail, the 

 land, if otherwise treated properly, will maintain its fer- 

 tility and continue the production of remunerative crops. 



These things being true, it follows that live stock and 

 mixed farming should not be disconnected from special 

 lines of farming. The cotton farmer needs cattle and 

 sheep and hogs to consume his cow-pea forage, his clover 

 forage and his corn forage that were produced as a part 

 of the crop system to maintain the cotton lands. The 

 wheat farmer needs live stock for a proper utilization of 

 straw and clover and alfalfa, that are a part of good wheat 

 farming. The corn farmer needs hogs and cattle to con- 

 sume grain and stover and the rotation crops, that his 

 lands may remain fertile and his farming plant made 

 better. Humus and manure must be had. They may 

 come from green crops or from city stables, but their use 

 must never be ignored, else the time will come suddenly 

 when neither chemicals nor tillage will avail and when 

 the land will be thrown back on Nature for restoration 



