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Object Of Sods

Categories: GRASS SODS

The land's share of its products cannot be disregarded

without loss. The legumes and grasses come into the crop-rotation

primarily to raise the percentage of organic matter that the land may

appropriate to itself within the rotation. Some of the crops usually

are for sale from the farm. Most of the crops require tillage, and that

is exhaustive of the store of humus. A portion of the time within the

rotation belongs to
crop that increases the supply of vegetable

matter, unless manure is brought from an outside source. Sods lend

themselves well to this purpose because they afford some income, in

pasturage or hay, while filling the soil with vegetation. The tendency

is to forget the primary purpose of sods in the scheme, and to ignore

the requirement of land respecting a due share of what it produces.

Attention centers upon the product that may be removed. The portion of

the farm reduced in productive power for the moment goes to grass,

while the labor and fertilizers are concentrated upon the fields that

are broken for grain and vegetables. The removal of all the crop at

harvest, and probably the pasturing of after-math, are the only matters

of interest that the fields, depleted by cultivation and seeded down to

grass, have for the owner until the poor hay yield and the need of a

sod for corn draw attention again to them.



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