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the price of seed and amount per acre, 

 and when and how to plant it. While I 

 think it will grow nearly all over the 

 United States, and sooae parts of Can- 

 ada, it will grow faster in the central 

 and southern parts. It has been intro- 

 duced by Utah people into Wyoming, 

 Idaho, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, 

 and Old Mexico. In the last three places 

 it grows very fast, so that they cut about 

 four crops per annum. 



It likes a rich and moderately dry, 

 sandy loam — in fact, if there is not a 

 large amount of rock or cement under 

 the soil, it will go down to water. I 

 have known the roots to go down over 

 12 feet here. Mr. Warner, an old sub- 

 scriber of the Bee Jouknal, who lives 

 in Grand county, tells me that Grand 

 river undermined a high, sandy bluff 

 that lucerne grew on, so that it fell into 

 the river, and they found some lucerne 

 roots 30 feet below the surface. 



One thing is certain, it will not grow 

 much in very cold, wet soil. I have 

 known people to plant it here in dry, 

 warm soil, then by a system of irriga- 

 tion the water would lie too near the 

 surface, so that the lower roots would be 

 in the water ; in a case of this kind, 

 they plow it under, cutting off the roots, 

 and it will start up again, when the 

 roots will go down until they get enough 

 moisture, when they will stop. 



To destroy it, they plow it off and 

 harrow the ground, thus pulling the 

 crown or top of the roots out of the 

 ground. 



It is a good fertilizer, and when plowed 

 off, as I have stated, the soil is much 

 better than it was prior to its being 

 sown with the lucerne. 



The best way to plant it is to plow the 

 soil in the fall, and harrow the seed in 

 as soon as the ground is dry enough to 

 work, so as to get the spring snow or 

 rain on it. Put in, in this way, 20 

 pounds of seed to the acre Is enough. 

 This is for the south or central part of 

 the country ; further north I would use 

 5 pounds more to the acre, and if 

 planted late in the spring I would sow 

 30 pounds to the acre. 



Sometimes it grows successfully 

 planted in the fall, but if the plants 

 come out of the ground in the fall or 

 early spring, and are caught with a 

 heavy frost, it will kill it; thus we see 

 that the fall plowing and early spring 

 planting is the safest. Of course, the 

 farther south the earlier it should be 

 planted. 



The roots are injurious to trees, so it 

 should not be sown in the orchard. 



For a forage plant it beats everything 



