Each foot of land must be made to yield its 

 utmost and in many cases the utmost is not a single 

 crop. A great many crops, especially vegetables, 

 may be grown as companion crops or succession 

 crops. Two different crops may be grown on the 

 same area in the same season. Radishes may be 

 sown with beets or carrots, the one crop being 

 planted between the rows of the other. By the 

 time the beets or carrots need the room, the 

 radishes are ready to harvest. 



Squashes, citron, pumpkins, or beans, are very 

 good crops to grow r with corn. When the beans 

 are planted with the corn they are usually planted 

 in the same hill and the corn, which grows more 

 rapidly, furnishes support for the beans. The best 

 varieties in this case are the climbing ones and it is 

 not best to plant too large an area in this way. If 

 the field were too large the beans toward the 

 center would not receive the amount of sunlight 

 needed. 



Early onions may be planted in the same rows 

 with cauliflower or cabbage. The onions, of course, 

 are harvested early and the cabbage or cauliflower 

 has the space to itself after that. Lettuce may be 

 grown with early cabbage. Even the early crops 

 of radishes, lettuce and onions may be grown to- 

 gether without one seriously interfering with the 

 other. 



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