twe-carloads since then. Every new piece of alfalfa 

 put" in is ihocuiatetf^and limed. That's the secret of the whole 

 proposition. But I have had my troubles too. Last winter I lost 

 ten acres. I cut it late in October and the patch killed out. The 

 fields that I cut early in September came through fine. And be- 

 lieve me, you can't pasture it either if you want to keep a good stand." 

 "But isn't it true that even with the best of care alfalfa winter- 

 kills?" asked a very much interested one of the group. 



Fig. i. Equipped to grow his own feed with alfalfa for hay and corn for the silo. 



"Yes, it does. When we get an open winter with little snow and 

 then lots of alternate freezing and thawing and formation of smother- 

 ing ice-sheets, alfalfa especially on flat land will kill out. That's 

 what happened in many places last year. But clover goes, too, so I 

 guess we have got to look at it as a weather proposition just as we 

 would a hailstorm or a drought. We can't control the weather. 

 But they say there are some kinds of alfalfa that don't winterkill. 

 We'll hear about them later." (See Figs. 50 and 51.) 



An elderly man with a long gray beard leaned over the edge of 

 his seat. His voice was rather husky, but he had a clear, intelligent 

 eye and a face that bespoke toil and success. f 



"I have been listening to this discussion and I suppose if we keep 

 on there'll be no need of going to the meeting," he said. "We'll 

 have it all threshed out beforehand. But I'm interested. I've 

 turned the [farm over to the boy. He's been introducin' a lot of 

 ideas and practices that we never thought of years ago. At first I 

 was a little scared the boy was going wild. But now I'm satisfied 

 to let him go ahead. 



Lime Pays 



"When the boy bought his first carload of lime and then went to 

 all the extra trouble of inoculating and getting a good seed bed and 



