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ence of several days if all conditions are favorable. Its 

 endurance of overfow is greater when the . water is 

 moving thaui when it is stagnant, and greater during the 

 cooler periods of the year than when the plant is in a 

 more active stage of growth. The deposit of much sedi- 

 ment on the plant, and hot, faik* weather immediately 

 after the water passes off are conditions unfavorable to 

 recovery, Kains, washing otf the sedilnent, are favor- 

 able to recovery. 



In a bulletin of the Texas Experiment Station are 

 cited two instances in which alfalfa in the Brazos River 

 bottoms was under water for five or six davs in summer 

 without the destiiiction of the stand, except where the 

 deposit of sediment Avas great or on poorly drained areas. 

 These are extreme cases, and refer to soil that was well 

 drained. Mv. R. P. McEntire, of Decatur, Ala., gives 

 his experience with overflow as follows: "In the fall of 

 1901 I sowed 3 acres October 15, and got a good stand. 

 In January we had an overflow from the Tennessee 

 River, which was out over the land for two weeks. In a 

 few days Ave had a hard freeze. Then on February 15 

 we had another overflow, which lasted 10 davs. As the 

 water went off we had another freeze. When spring 

 opened I had something like half a stand." It would 

 seem that one might raise alfalfa on land naturally well 

 drained and where the OA^erflows occur chiefly in winter, 

 and where it is unusual for the water to remain on the 

 land as long as three or four days in winter or two days 

 in the Avarmer part of the year. 



