CHAPTER VIII. 



CROP ROTATION. 



IN agriculture on a large scale the difficulty 

 is how to arrange the farm business so as 

 to make it pay. It is only of late that we 

 are beginning to understand that agriculture 

 is a business, and that to make it pay one must 

 apply business principles. The best farmer is 

 not necessarily the one who knows the most 

 "Science," but the one who is able to fit 

 his science, his facts and his business in to- 

 gether. 



The market value of special crops is so high 

 that the grower can afford to provide the extra 

 manure and other expensive materials to keep 

 the land in good condition. This is the chief 

 reason for the use of great quantities of stable 

 manure in market-gardening, far greater quan- 

 tities than are needed for mere food of the crops. 

 So if you find that you are advised to use more 

 manure on your small plot than some farmer 

 you know uses on his big field, do not feel that 

 you are being imposed upon. He could not 

 afford to use so much and you cannot afford 

 to use less. The farmer on a large scale has to 

 let part of his low priced land rest in clover once 

 in a while. You cannot afford to let any of 



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