You LXXIII. No. 42C4. 
NEW YORK, JULY 18, 1914. 
WEEKLY $1.00 PER YEAR. 
“DOUBLE CROPPING.” 
How Gardeners Keep Things Moving-Keeping Up 
a Succession. 
DO little of what may strictly be called compan¬ 
ion cropping, or having different crops growing 
together, but I endeavor to have them following 
each other as closely as possible by starting other 
Borecole, will be sown where the corn stood. These 
will be thinned out and the thinnings used as greens 
and the remaining plants given room to develop 
large heads that will be in their prime when the 
frost has killed the beans. As the corn rows were 
three and a half feet apart there will be plenty 
• * room for the rows of beans and kale. I have 
usually four or five plantings of corn in succession. 
my first sowing of beets either Egyptian or Eclipse, 
and sow some radish seed with them of the early 
turnip-rooted varieties. These come up quickly and 
mark the. rows where the beets are and are pulled 
out before the beets need the room. In planting the 
early beets a seed of chard is dropped every ten 
inches. The radishes come out first, and then the 
beets, and the chard holds the rows the rest of 
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crops before the first planted ones are entirely out 
of the way. For instance, my earliest sweet corn 
was (June 24) ready for use. Between each row I 
have planted a row of Fordhook Lima beans as a 
succession to other rows planted elsewhere earlier. 
As soon as the corn is used the stalks will be pulled 
out of the ground, and the corn rows prepared and 
fertilized, and rows of green curled Scotch kale, 
Between the rows of later corn, or the planting that 
will be in use early in August. I sow spinach broad¬ 
cast and rake the se Hi in. This is sown about the 
last of July and is for Fall use. Then still later 
in September between either corn or some other 
crop I will put in spinach in rows to winter over for 
Spring use. 
In early Spring, in late February, I usually make 
the season, the leaves being pulled like rhubarb for 
use. The vines of the early peas are turned under, 
and succession plantings of corn made on the land. 
Succession cabbages are set between the rows of the 
early string beans, and the bean tops are spaded 
under to help them as soon as the beans are used, 
and when these Succession cabbages are heading, 
onion sets are planted between the rows in Septem- 
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