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Farmers Guide says: — With alfalfa more generally 

 grown throughout Indiana we are hearing less complaint 

 regarding hay crop failures. In fact, some farmers who 

 have taken our advice and tried the crop are now saying 

 that they are having all they can do to take care of their 

 crops of hay. Think of cutting four or even three crops 

 of good hay from the same area each season. Isn't it 

 worth being busy and not going fishing when a farmer 

 can do that? It means an enormous saving in high- 

 priced land when ten acres will produce as much hay as 

 thirty or more formerly did, and hay better in quality 

 also. And then, think of keeping a field in meadow 

 thirty, forty, or more years and having it growing better 

 each year. There is not much necessity for crop rotation 

 under those conditions, is there? especially when every 

 season means three or four crops of good hay. But that 

 is the way with alfalfa and the more farmers get of it the 

 more they usually want. We are glad so many Indiana 

 farmers are getting busy with this crop, and there is i;o 

 question of its keeping them busy if they will only give 

 it a trial. 



IOWA. 



Prof M. L. Bowman, Department Farm Crops, Iowa 

 experiment station. — We are receiving very good results 

 from the alfalfa which is being grown at this station, mak- 

 ing from three to four cuttings each season with the yield 

 ranging from 4 to 7 tons to the acre. From one field, 

 seeded in August, 1905, the first cutting was taken June 

 II, 1906, and yielded 2.17 tons per acre. Two other cut- 

 tings were made. We believe alfalfa is sure to become 



