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tured seed. I could have cut these pieces in August with 

 profit had I so desired, and then had plenty of growth to 

 have kept the sjock in pasture, changing pastures each 

 week." 



A^. O. P. Synogroimd of Brown county writes : "I 

 consider alfalfa and clover culture practicable in this lo- 

 cality. I also consider the Turkestan variety superior to 

 the home-grown varieties. Cut the field twice the first 

 year and received four tons per acre. I have never cut 

 any for seed. These crops have not winterkilled here." 



TENNESSEE 



Prof, H. A. Morgan, Director Tennessee experiment 

 station. — Alfalfa has been known in Tennessee for many 

 years, but not until the general failure of Red clover, due 

 to one or more species of Colletotrichnm, and the search 

 for substitutes for Red clover, were any serious efforts 

 made to grow alfalfa in this state. On alluvial land 

 along the Mississippi river in west Tennessee, in what is 

 known as the Central Basin section of middle Tennessee, 

 and on the richer lands of east Tennessee, alfalfa has 

 been grown very successfully, and each year large areas 

 are being sown to this clover. Mr. L. Donaldson, of 

 Lake county, gives the following relative to the prepara- 

 tion of soil, etc., for alfalfa in the alluvial area of west 

 Tennessee : *'The land is plowed deep with large mold- 

 board breaking plows in September or about the first of 

 March. It is then harrowed until thoroughly pulverized, 

 and either about October lo or April i, two gallons of 

 seed are sown, by machine or by hand. The harrow is 

 used for covering the seed. We have no more trouble with 



