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by, with a better chance, will not pay for cutting. I wish my entire farm was seeded 

 with it. It is hard to tell it from alfalfa. I don't think that good soil would hurt 

 it, but it will live where other clover will not. 



FRANK D. WELLS, ROCHESTER, MICHIGAN, JUNE 7, 1901. 



The sand lucerne was in a place which we found desirable to plow this spring. The 

 little that remains is excellent. Think I shall try it on a larger scale. 



BENJ. F. BATCHELER, HOWELL, MICHIGAN, JUNE 22, 1901. 



Mr. Batcheler has a plot of sand lucerne sown in the spring of 1900, which is six- 

 rods long, and three rods wide. He harvested from it, from a June 12th cutting, 640 

 pounds of cured hay. He writes as follows: 



"I did not get all the growth, as I cut it with a machine and it was quite badly 

 down. Think there would have been 700 pounds had I got the whole. The hay is 

 sufficiently cured to keep, but heavier than it will weigh out after drying in the barn. 

 Have not tested its feeding quality yet. If it proves good forage and stands the 

 winter, I think it will be a good thing. It took much time to cure the hay. Had hardly 

 commenced to blossom." 



WM. F. BARR, SHERWELL, MICHIGAN, JUNE 15, 1901. 



Mr. Barr cut and harvested 100 pounds of hay from a plot covering 1,000 square 

 feet. This would give him 4,356 pounds of cured hay from the first cutting. He 

 writes as follows: 



"Ground light sand, some seed seems to be just coming that dropped last fall, as 

 I did not cut the last crop. Got about one-third of a stand last spring. Pulled a 

 stalk with tap root two feet long. Believe I would like it if I could get a good stand." 



F. O. WITHERBEE, SHELBY, MICHIGAN, JULY 24, 1901. 



Cut 130 ponds of hay from 1,400 square feet. This would give about two tons of 

 cured hay to the acre. "Stand rather irregular from sowing broadcast on small plot 

 with small amount of seed. Stood winter well. Very dry since cutting, making fair 

 growth. About ready to cut again." 



JOHN MAXWELL, MT. PLEASANT, MICHIGAN, JUNE 25, 1901. 



The sand lucerne seed you sent me last year came up good, and made a good growth 

 the first year, and looked well this spring, but now is turning yellow and dying. 



Mr. Maxwell did not cut the lucerne in time, and, naturally, it instead of dying was 

 simply beginning to ripen. It should have been cut probably about June 1. 



PHILLIP BARTON, LAPEER CITY, MICHIGAN, JULY 8, 1901. 



^Yc sowed the sand lucerne last spring, a year ago, with rye. It grew well until 

 the rye was cut, then the hot sun seemed to burn it, so that it all died. 



