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for making cheese. Casein has been used in different channels of busi- 

 ness, and the by-products of milli have developed into a wonderfully large 

 business. So you see we have something besides butter. Here you have 

 established not only a market for butter but for others as well— all of the 

 by-i)roducts. 



I want to impress this one thing on you all the way through, and that 

 is this, that the quality of your produce will determine the price you will 

 get for it. 



Gentlemen. 1 thank you. 



President Johnson: We have a large number of dairymen present at 

 this convention, and we ought to have a large membership. I think it 

 would be a good idea for two or three solicitors to be appointed to take 

 memberships. 



(Motion that President appoint solicitors. Carried.) 



Pi'esideut Johnson: Gentlemen, oiu- time is growing short, so please 

 boil down what you have to say as much as possible. 



ALFALFA: GROWING AND FEEDING. 



G. r. KEWSOM, WEST NEWTON. 



LSdies and Gentlemen— I do not know very much about alfalfa, for 

 I have not grown it very long. The trouble with the most of the things 

 that we raise on the farm is that they take the nutriment from tlie soil 

 and do not put it back, so we must work to do this. Some things put 

 nitrogen in the soil, and the chief of these are clover and alfalfa. Clover 

 has been grown in Indiana a great deal and has developed agriculture 

 wonderfully. There is no longer any doubt about the fact that the alfalfa 

 can be grown in Indiana. There are a number of farmers in Indiana 

 that have as much as 10. 20 or 30 acres growing successfully. Another 

 thing in its favor is that it does not have to be replanted every season. I 

 know of cases, one at least, but not in Indiana. M-here 42 crops of 

 alfalfa have been cut from one field in 14 years, and there was no 

 reseeding. 



The first thing to do is to get a start. Alfalfa has a fine seed like 

 clover, and when we put it in the soil we want It to grow. The time 

 of sowing will depend a great deal on the source of the seed. Seed 

 grown in a climate like that of Indiana can be sown much earlier in the 



