154 Kansas State Board of Agriculture. 



PIG. 139. A crop of kafir in Rooks county, immediately following alfalfa. 



Harvey county: "Corn grows very rank, also wheat, a few years after 

 breaking. I have a field broken six years ago. The beneficial effects are 

 plainly to be seen yet." 



Wyandotte county: "Fine. Boosts potatoes." 



Comanche county: "Increases the yield first year 60 per cent." 



Coffey county: "I plowed under a heavy crop of alfalfa on black river 

 land and then planted it to wheat. The yield was 34 bushels per acre for 

 two years. The field adjoining yielded 24 bushels of the same kind of 

 wheat in these two years." 



Cloud county : "The second year after plowing alfalfa ground the dif- 

 ference in the same field of wheat was 20 bushels 38 bushels on alfalfa 

 ground and 18 bushels on the other ground." 



* Clay county: "Wheat 40 bushels to the acre when the rest of the 

 wheat froze out on the farm." 



Cowley county: "It is great. I knew of one field making 54 bushels 

 of wheat per acre after it had been plowed two years." 



Sheridan county: "I plowed thirty acres that was four years old, and 

 sowed to barley. It yielded twice as much as that on corn ground." 



Harvey county: "It increases the yield wonderfully, except in very 

 dry times. We got 50 bushels of wheat to the acre last year on alfalfa 

 ground and 35 bushels on other ground, and 75 bushels of oats one year 

 on alfalfa ground and 50 bushels on other ground. There are less weeds 

 and clods and more humus in alfalfa ground." 



Marion county : "Very good with wheat and oats. It has about doubled 

 in yield." 



Lyon county: "It has doubled the yield on oats, wheat and corn." 

 Washington county : "Corn yield nearly doubled ; also wheat yields." 



Pratt county: "I have raised double the amount on alfalfa land that 

 I raised on adjoining land." 



Lyon county : "After four or five years it will double the yield of corn 

 on the same ground." 



