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just been grown on grass land or if it is growing well 

 with the grass, there is no need to add nitrogen. If the 

 grass seem to lack sufficient nourishment, add phosphoric 

 acid and potash. Grass, however, not grown in company 

 with clover, often needs dried blood, nitrate of soda, or 

 some other nitrogen-supplying agent. Of course it is 





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understood that no better fertilizer can be applied to 

 grass than barnyard manure. 



Alfalfa. Alfalfa is primarily a hay crop. It thrives in 

 the far West, in the middle West, in the North, and in the 

 South. In fact, it. will do well wherever the soil is rich, 

 moist, deep, and underlaid by an open subsoil. The vast 

 areas given to this valuable crop are yearly growing in 

 every section of the United States. Alfalfa, however, 

 unlike the cowpea, does not take to poor land. For its 



