Growing Hay And Pasture Crops In Dry Areas With Information On Growing Hay And Pasture Crops On Dry Land Farms

This vintage book offers the reader a comprehensive guide to growing hay and pasture crops in arid areas, exploring in detail the various problems and how they can be overcome. It will be of especial utility to those working on dry land farms, but also includes much that will interest the general farmer. Contents include: “Farming”, “Growing Hay And Pasture Crops”, “In Dry Areas”, “Growing Brome Grass”, “Growing Hay From Grains”, “Growing Hay From The Millets”, “Growing Pasture Crops From Grass”, “Growing Pasture Crops From Grain”, etc. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new introduction on farming.

This antique volume contains a detailed treatise on crop rotation on dry farms. Discussed within this text are such topics as: the importance of rotation in dry areas, methodology, equipment, scientific reasoning, pitfalls, rotation tips, and much more. Although old, most of the information contained herein is timeless, and will be of as much value to the modern farmer as it was to those contemporary with the original publication of this text. The chapters of this book include: 'Rotation in Dry Areas', 'Negative Reasons for Rotation in Humid Areas', 'Incidental Benefits from Rotation', 'Additional Reasons for Rotation in Dry Areas', 'Rotation by Alternating Fallow and Grain', 'Rotation by Alternating Cultivated Crops and Grain', 'Rotation Which Combines Fallow and Cultivated Crops', etcetera. We are proud to republish this antiquarian book, now complete with a new introduction on farming.

Final yearly issue includes index of special articles. December through March issues contain reports of snow and ice conditions.

Discusses hay, hay crops and crop residues in a wide range of situations. This publication deals with the haymaking process, cultivation of hay crops and management of natural hay fields as well as the harvest and conservation of crop residues as animal feed. A series of case studies from Asia, Africa and Latin America illustrate how hay and crop residues can be integrated into production systems.