Alfalfa. 



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Ten of these eighteen plats received appHcations of soil from an old 

 alfalfa field and are so distributed among the others that in only one 

 case are there two plats side by side that (lid not have a dressing of soil. 



Fig. 91. — Flat 15 11. Plain seed, manure and soil. Alfalfa and weeds from four 



square feet. 



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Fig. 92. — Plat 1510. Plain seed and manure. Alfalfa and weeds from four 



square feet. 



The land slopes from the northeast corner of these plats to the south- 

 west, but more from east to west than from north to south. The soil is 

 rather impervious to water and the rainfall during the season has been 



