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uninoculated plot yielded 726 green and 313 dry, the 

 other two plots sown with inoculated seed 416 and 377 

 pounds green or 189 and 168 pounds dry respectively. 

 These results point favorably to inoculating the soil from 

 old alfalfa fields 



NORTH CAROLINA 



Dr, B. IV. Kilgore, Director North Carolina experi- 

 ment station. — Alfalfa has been grown in a small way in 

 this state, particularly in the section around ''Hillsboro, 

 for 75 to 100 years. The soil there has become well 

 inoculated and there are some small areas of good alfalfa 

 grown there. There has been for a number of years past 

 considerable interest in the production of this crop, but 

 its cultivation has not been very successful. On our ex- 

 periment farms in different sections of the state it has 

 done reasonably well, and there have been put out quite 

 a large number of small areas during the last few years, 

 which give hopes of success w^th the crop. When some 

 further details regarding the time and method for seeding 

 and treatment, especially to prevent crab grass and weeds 

 from getting the upper hand of the crop during the 

 summer have been worked out, we believe that alfalfa 

 will be grown to quite a large extent and be a most valu- 

 able addition to our present forage crops. 



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Trof. J. H. Shepperd, Dean of the North Dakota Agri- 

 cultural college. — Alfalfa has not been given a thorough 

 trial by the people of North Dakota, but the results 

 secured by the experiment station indicate that it is 



