374 EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



2 GEORGE V., A. 1912 



The stand obtained was only fairly good on account of the extremely dry summer. 

 There were more than one hundred plants of all varieties except Medicago falcata. 

 This is an interesting new variety recently introduced from Siberia. It is considered 

 very hardy, but is prostrate in habit of growth and would not therefore be valuable 

 except for crossing with other varieties. 



A list of the varieties sown follows — 



Number. 

 25167. Erfurt, Germany. Hardy Thuringian alfalfa. 

 25167. Erfurt, Germany. Hardy Thuringian alfalfa. 

 25115. Bromberg, Prussia. 



25269. Frasinet, Eoumania. 



25257. Bavarian Palatinate. Pfalzer lucerne. 

 21232. Mongolia. 



25270. Vasluiu, Eoumania. 



25271. Belfontaine, .Ohio, U.S.A. 



23396. Germany. Commercial Sand Lucerne. 



24376. Arabia. 



21217. Lecoq's Commercial Sand Lucerne. 



20896. Vilmorin's Commercial Sand Lucerne. 



22636. Provence, France. 



21945. Sextorp, Neb., U.S.A. (Dryland). 



22946. Baltic, S. Dak. Wheeler's selections. 



24451. Siberia. Medicago ruflienica. 

 23454. Chinook, Montana, U.S.A. 

 25179. Vienna. Hungarian Lucerne. 

 22834. Wessel. Duval Peruvian. 

 23203. Werny. Northern Turkestan. 



25176. Berlin, Germany. Commercial Bohemian Sand Lucerne. 



24452. Siberia. Medicago falcata. 

 18629. Canadian. 



21867. Nephi Utah, U.S.A. (Dryland). 

 22467. Alt-Deutsche Frankische. 

 23481. Leifman's Bohemian Sand Lucerne. 

 21247. Canadian. 



NEW SEEDIXGS OF ALFALFA. 



For See I. 



About two acres were sown with Grimm alfalfa in June for seed purposes. The 

 seed was sown thinly in rows thirty inches apart to give the plants ample room as the 

 seed is produced mainly on the branches. 



A fairly good stand was obtained. The plants went into the winter with a top of 

 3 to 12 inches. 



For Hay. 



Twenty acres of land that had been summer-fallowed in 1909 was sown lo alfalfa 

 in June and an excellent catch secured. The seed was sown at the rate of eighteen 

 pounds per acre with the ordinary grain drill. The mower was run over the field late 

 in August to cut weeds and induce the plant.- to root deeply. When winter set in the 



