114 ALFALFA 
There is no plant on the farm that is so profitable 
to the farmer as alfalfa. When the Kansas farmer com- 
menced to grow it he began to wax fat. His bank ac- 
count grew, his mortgage was canceled, his house and 
barn grew into stately buildings filled with those equip- 
ments and machinery that lessen toil, and make life 
worth while. 
If this plant has done so much for the Kansas farmer, 
why can it not do as much for the farmers of every 
state in the Union? 
Alfalfa on the farm in most any state means at least 
three crops of hay each season whose feeding power has 
no equal. 
It means plenty of pasture for all stock no matter 
how dry the season may be. 
It means a food in abundance for the hog, greater in 
fattening and health preserving powers than any food 
ever grown and fed to this animal. 
It means better milk, butter, beaf, mutton and poultry. 
It means that this busy plant, which never rests, will 
send its great long nodule-producing roots down deep 
into the soil, opening the way for the water and air, pro- 
ducing organic matter, liberating and bringing up the 
valuable plant minerals, drawing from the air into the 
soil the precious nitrogen, and thus rebuilding and mak- 
ing rich again the soils wasted of their fertility by the 
sordid system of farming so long practiced in this land 
of ours. 
Some farmers say that the reason they do not grow 
alfalfa is because it is hard to get it started; that it re- 
quires so much labor and patience to get the proper 
