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Excerpt from The Arrangement of Farm Fields The number of fields which it is desirable to have on a farm will depend upon the rotation followed. There should be a field for each year of the rotation. In addition to this, many farmers like to have an odd field for miscellaneous or extra crops where more or less of a crop can be grown without breaking up the established rotation. Some have three or four of these small fields and carry on a minor rotation in addition to the main crop rotation. In some cases where there are certain special crops, such as tobacco, pota toes', silage corn, or soiling crops, this may be advantageous, but it is usually desirable to work these crops into the general field sys tem; they can be more economically handled in that manner. The fields in the minor rotation should be located close to the barns and immediately connected with the farmstead. In few instances would it be practical for a farmer to make radical readjustments in the field arrangement of his farm all at once. It is better to have in mind a well-developed plan of what is the ideal field arrangement for his particular conditions and type of farming, and then to work toward this as rapidly and economically as time and means will permit, draining out a wet hole one year, clearing a piece of stump land the next, rearranging a fence the next year, and so on, but always working toward the final desired arrangement. By proceeding in this manner the work can be done at a minimum of expense. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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