io8 Weeds. 



chapter. Where these other and less 

 expensive modes are faithfully practiced, 

 it will be unnecessary to resort to the bare 

 fallow for the purposes of weed destruction. 



When it is thought necessary to resort to 

 the bare fallow, let it be in some modified 

 form ; that is to say, let some crop be grown 

 the same season, before or after the fallow- 

 ing is done. When a late crop is grown, as 

 one of millet or of rape, during the portion 

 of the season prior to the sowing of that 

 crop the ground may be fallowed with 

 excellent results, both in the destruction of 

 the weeds and in the preparation of the soil 

 for the crop that is to come after. Simi- 

 larly, other crops which mature early in 

 the season may be followed by the bare fal- 

 low for the rest of the season, and so 

 secure nearly all the benefits of the ordi- 

 nary bare fallow without the missing of a 

 crop. These early-maturing crops include 

 rye, winter wheat, and barley. 



In the same way, pastures may be eaten 

 off until some time in June, and then be 

 plowed and worked on the surface, with 

 great injury to the weeds, until it is time 

 to sow winter wheat. The same course 

 may be adopted with early-cut meadows, 



