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ABSTRACT: Sunn hemp (Crotalaria juncea L.) provides farm system benefits when incorporated into a cropping system as a cover crop. Sunn hemp rapidly attains canopy closure when planted at appropriate densities, providing weed suppression, biologically fixed nitrogen (N), and soil stability.
Cover crops slow erosion, improve soil, smother weeds, enhance nutrient and moisture availability, help control many pests and bring a host of other benefits to your farm. At the same time, they can reduce costs, increase profits and even create new sources of income. You¿ll reap dividends on your cover crop investments for years, since their benefits accumulate over the long term. This book will help you find which ones are right for you. Captures farmer and other research results from the past ten years. The authors verified the info. from the 2nd ed., added new results and updated farmer profiles and research data, and added 2 chap. Includes maps and charts, detailed narratives about individual cover crop species, and chap. about aspects of cover cropping.
Excerpt from A Treatise on Hemp, Including a Comprehensive Account of the Best Modes of Cultivation and Preparation as Practised in Europe, Asia, and America: With Observations on the Sunn Plant of India, Which May Be Introduced as a Substitute for Many of the Purposes to Which Hemp Is Now Exclusively Applied In addition to these valuable remarks of the Noble Agriculturist, it is worthy of note, that Hemp is stated to possess the excellent property of, expelling caterpillars from cabbage-plantations and, on this account, it, has been recommended as a certain preventive of the depredations, com mitted by those vermin, that all the borders of the ground, where it is intended to plant cabbages, be sown with Hemp and, however the. Vicinity may be infested by caterpillars, the grand inclosure (it is affirmed. 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.