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THE BOOK OF ALFALFA 



The Nebraska experiment station has made very care- 

 ful tests of the comparative yields of various grasses, 

 clovers and mixtures. These were on plats of one-fifth 

 of an acre. The foregoing table shows the yields the 

 second year from planting, which owing to the very dry 

 spring was a quite unfavorable season. 



COMPARED WITH CORN 



The Colorado station reports a comparison with corn 

 as follows : 



Yield per acre of Corn and Alfalfa 



INDIVIDUAL INSTANCES OF CASH RETURNS 



A Lincoln county, Kansas, farmer writes that from 

 five acres of alfalfa he received in one season $ioo for 

 hay, $150 for seed and $20 for straw. 



A farmer near Atwood, Rawlins county, Kansas, cut 

 two crops for hay and threshed the third crop for seed, 

 realizing 13 bushels per acre, which sold at $5 per bushel. 



A Harlan county, Nebraska, farmer reports an income 

 of $774 in one year from seed and hay from six acres. 



Scott Bros., of Pottawatomie county, Kansas, report 

 to the author as follows concerning their returns from a 

 twelve-acre field in one year: 



