Alfalfa in Kansas. 



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Butler county: "Increase corn yield 33% per cent." 



Geary county: "It renews the land and will produce 50 per cent more 

 corn than land of the same kind that has been in other crops." 



Harper county: "I have raised 30 per cent more corn on old alfalfa 

 ground than on the same kind of land in other crops." 



Riley county : "Corn will make 50 per cent more after alfalfa." 



Kingman county: "Increased yield of corn 100 per cent. If followed 

 with wheat there will be too much straw." 



Washington county: "Corn this year (1915) on alfalfa ground will 

 yield from 25 to 50 per cent more than on wheat or corn ground." 



Woodson county: "We have never followed alfalfa with any crop 

 that was not benefited as much as 25 per cent. One field we had in corn 

 for several years, and it still shows good effects of the alfalfa. Last 

 year this field made an average of 70 bushels to the acre." 



Norton county : "Corn makes 80 bushels to the acre on alfalfa ground." 



Marshall county: "It has a very good effect. A great upbuilder of 

 soils. It makes 60 bushels of corn where only 35 grew before. Corn 

 makes a very rank growth after alfalfa and is easily hurt by drouth." 



Shawnee county: "Corn, 30 bushels; alfalfa five years; corn, 70 

 bushels." 



Jefferson county: "It increases growth if there is plenty of moisture. 

 Corn made 80 bushels to the acre, while wheat fell down and failed to 

 fill." 



Greenwood county: "I raised 90 bushels of corn on ground that had 

 been in alfalfa ten years." 



Riley county: "The effect is great. I have known of land raising 20 

 bushels of corn more to the acre." 



Greenwood county: "Always followed with corn. Last year (second 

 year) I harvested 15 tons kafir per acre, some of which threshed 60 

 bushels to the acre." 



ROTATION WITH ALFALFA. 



Few if any of the growers reporting have worked out a definite scheme 

 of rotation with alfalfa as one of the crops. It is the custom to follow 

 alfalfa with the ordinary farm crops, such as sorghums, corn, wheat, 

 oats, millet, "cane" and potatoes. Probably the long life of the average 

 field makes orderly rotation with other crops somewhat inconvenient. 



PLOWING ALFALFA. 

 TABLE No. 13. Preference of growers as to time of plowing alfalfa. 



There is considerable difference of opinion in regard to the depths of 

 plowing alfalfa sod. 



