Alfalfa in Kansas. 



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and oats are preferred, with millet and summer fallowing strictly in the 

 minority. Of course there are other miscellaneous and scattering crops 

 for which preference was expressed, but these crops stood out from all 

 others. 



In response to the request for a reason for the expressed preference, 

 three principal objects seemed to influence the selection, viz.: to keep 

 down weeds; to leave the future seed bed in a firm condition; and to 

 make plowing convenient at the proper time. These reasons were given 

 by growers preferring corn, as well as by those preferring wheat or oats 

 or millet, or summer fallowing. A grower would give one reason or 

 another as his preference for this or that crop, and no particular reason 

 was generally applied to any particular crop. No crop seemed to be 

 unanimously preferred in any particular section. 



FIG. 22. Spreading lime by hand. [Courtesy Farmers Mail and Breeze.] 



FiO. 23. Disking-in ground limestone. [Courtesy Delaware Experiment Station.] 



