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Crop  Rotations  in  Florida 
I  am  inclosing  clipping  in  which  yon 
state  every  man  having  control  of  a  piece 
of  land  should  grow  rhubarb  and  as¬ 
paragus.  I  think  you  will  have  to  back 
up  one  or  two  steps  at  least.  For  more 
than  50  years  before  coming  to  Southern 
Florida  I  used  both  of  those  vegetables 
during  their  season,  and  used  the  canned 
products  when  they  were  out  of  season. 
When  I  landed  here  12  years  ago  I 
thought  I  would  have  rhubarb  and  as¬ 
paragus  the  entire  year,  so  one  of  the 
first  things  I  did  was  to  prepare  suitable 
beds.  I  secured  rootstocks  from  the 
North,  planted  them  and  they  grew,  and 
they  grew,  and  grew — never  ceased — like 
Peter  Finley’s  turnip.  I  began  using 
them  as  soon  as  possible  and  they  kept 
on  growing,  seeding,  and  getting  smaller 
and  liner  stalks.  It  seemed  they  could 
not  find  a  place  to  stop,  Winter  or  Sum¬ 
mer,  as  our  frosts  usually  do  not  kill 
even  tender  vegetables,  and  I  have  not 
yet  seen  hardy  ones  killed.  So  those 
plants  grew  and  made  seed  till  they 
seemed  to  kill  themselves.  I  called  it 
suicide.  They  dwindled  down  till  stalks 
were  not  larger  than  rye  straws.  I  be¬ 
lieve  every  other  vegetable  I  ever  knew 
of  in  the  North  grows  here  sometime 
between  August  25  and  June  25,  and 
some  during  the  entire  season,  but  rhu¬ 
barb  and  asparagus  will  not  produce  re¬ 
sults.  Peaches  do  the  same  thing.  They 
begin  blooming  a  few  months  after  plant¬ 
ing.  bloom  aud  bear,  bloom  and  bear  in 
succession,  till  they  commit  suicide.  Some 
deciduous  fruit  trees  know  how  to  behave 
— such  as  Japanese  persimmons.  They 
bear  one  crop  in  season  and  stop  till  next 
season. 
But  now  when  we  come  to  an  upland 
rice  crop  it  does  the  thing  Northern  grain 
cannot  do.  I  drill -upland  rice  on  reason¬ 
ably  strong  land  and  give  it  500  lbs.  of 
3-8-4  fertilizer,  seeding  65  lbs.  per  acre 
about  January  5.  It  will  yield  60  to  75 
bushels  per  acre,  and  can  be  harvested  the 
last  of  May  to  June  10.  Remove  grain 
as  soon  as  dry  to  stack,  and  broadcast 
200  lbs.  of  3-S-4  on  the  stubble,  scratch 
it  in  lightly  and  the  stubble  will  tiller 
or  stool  out  and  October  1  to  15  you  can 
harvest  as  many  or  more  bushels  per 
acre  than  the  first  crop.  Then  the  third 
crop  comes,  which  makes  considerable 
grain  for  grazing.  Or  I  have  plowed 
under  the  second  stubble  as  soon  as  grain 
can  be  moved  from  land,  or  plow  between 
shock  rows  and  drill  in  3  ft.  rows  Ilubam 
clover  and  give  it  clean  cultivation ;  it 
will  grow  4  to  5  feet  high  by  January  1 
if  you  give  it  some  organic  fertilizer  and 
sufficient  raw  marl,  which  is  plentiful. 
Canadian  field  peas  can  be  substituted. 
Ground  must  have  clean  cultivation  so 
rice  can  be  drilled  on  the  land  easily  in 
January  without  plowing,  by  using  disk 
drill.  This  is  what  I  call  a  continuous 
rotation  of  crops.  There  are  other  ro¬ 
tations  that  fit  in  just  as  close,  and  less 
than  one-half  of  fertilizer  required. 
Plant  velvet  beans  early  in  January ; 
after  April  1  turn  cows  on  beans  to  eat 
what  they  can,  then  turn  beans  under 
June  10  and  drill  rice  June  27  till  July 
10;  it  makes  first  crop  without  fertilizer. 
Harvest  early  in  October,  broadcast  200 
lbs.  4-7-3  fertilizer  and  cut  the  second 
crop  of  rice  from  first  seeding,  or  two 
crops  from  one  seeding.  Then  turn  the 
rice  stubble  and  plant  Irish  potatoes  in 
rows  5  ft.  apart  and  velvet  beans  be¬ 
tween.  So  one  can  follow  one  crop  by 
another  and  not  leave  the  ground  idle 
more  than  one  week  between  any  two 
crops  if  they  manage  to  have  the  rice  in 
during  the  rainy  season. 
Constant  growing  of  crops  requires 
regular  feeding  of  both  organic  and  com¬ 
mercial  fertilizer.  l.  c.  baikd. 
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Even  though  you  have  dozens  of  ques¬ 
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