The Wisconsin Experiment Station finds that one acre of alfalfa 

 will produce as much protein as three acres of clover or nine acres 

 of timothy. Alfalfa is a concentrated hay feed equal to bran for 

 dairy cows. It takes the place of costly feed products. It means 

 home-grown protein. It reduces the feed bill. It is relished by all 

 farm animals. 



Not Always the Best 



What more could one expect of any farm crop? And yet there 

 are good, practical, money-making farmers who pay no attention 

 to the popular slogan, "Alfalfa on every farm." Not on every farm 

 can alfalfa be successfully grown. When I say successfully grown 

 I mean profitably grown, because you can grow alfalfa anywhere 

 in the United States if you have enough money to make conditions 

 right for it. 



But take, for example, the northern parts of Wisconsin, Minne- 

 sota and Michigan, where much of the land is newly cleared and 



Fig. 9. "Lest We Forget" 

 Our Old Friend Red Clover 



Where clover grows like a weed and alfalfa is difficult and costly 

 to establish, it should not be too strongly emphasized. 



nearly all of it grows clover like a weed, though much of it is too 

 acid to grow alfalfa readily. That alfalfa can be grown there by the 

 use of lime has been demonstrated by the presence of many excellent 

 fields, but with clover so abundant, so luxuriant and so certain and 

 easily established, without the trouble and cost of liming or inocu- 

 lating, do you blame the farmer for being conservative in his views 

 on alfalfa? Do you blame him for bein? slow to take a chance on a 

 new crop that is exacting in all its requirements, especially for lime 

 and inoculation and a carefully prepared seed bed? 



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