178 FARM MECHANICS 



dom falls in the lower Sacramento Valley during the 

 haying season in the months of May and June. This 

 refers to wild hay, which is made up of burr clover, 

 wild oats and volunteer wheat and barley. 



Alfalfa is cut from five to seven times in the hot in- 

 terior valleys, so that if a farmer is rash enough to 

 plant alfalfa under irrigation his haying thereafter 

 will reach from one rainy season to the next, 



