Then the blue grass naturally takes the place of the dead alfalfa 

 plants and makes a very prominent appearance at the time of the 

 first cutting. It then gets the blame for the thinned stand of 

 alfalfa, though the condition was entirely due to winterkilling by 

 the late fall cutting or pasturing. Of course, after the June grass 

 has gained a good foothold it will then gradually crowd out the al- 

 falfa, but most of this blue-grass trouble is due to late cutting or 

 pasturing or real hard winter weather. (See Figs. 14 and 37.) 



Fig. 3. Alfalfa excels as feed for all kinds of livestock. 



Alfalfa In the Rotation 



"Do you know what my boy is planning on doing now? Well, 

 sir, he is going to put alfalfa into a regular rotation just as I used 

 to handle clover. He has grown alfalfa on that farm until now it's 

 just as easy for him to get a stand of alfalfa as of timothy and clover. 

 He plans to plow his third crop every two years in a rotation of two 

 years of corn, and then seed down to alfalfa for two years, using 

 barley as a nurse crop. I guess this is alright, but it's one of these 

 new ideas that are hard for fellows like me to see. I'd rather have 

 an alfalfa field stand as long as it would produce satisfactory crops. 

 But everybody to his own judgment on this proposition. One thing, 

 it's quite a job to plow up an old alfalfa field. (See Fig. 13.) 



Don't Be Prejudiced 



"Did you ever hear Joe Wirig talk alfalfa? He used to say it 



