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flavor are grown on the dry farming lands. The market is nearly 

 always good, 1912 being an "off" year for Oregon as well as the rest 

 of the United States. Yields are very high where good methods are 

 used. The best common varieties are the American Wonder and the 

 Burbank. 



ALFALFA. 



Alfalfa is grown practically altogether in Eastern Oregon on irri- 

 gated lands. (See above table). On the Coast a few experi- 

 mental acres are grown and in the Willamette Valley a number of 

 small plantings are doing well under intensive management as a 

 soiling (green feeding) crop for the dairy cows during the summer 

 months. In Southern Oregon the crop does well under irrigation 

 without special treatment. Northeast Malheur County on the 

 Snake River is the heaviest yielding alfalfa section in the state. 

 Alfalfa has been grown very successfully on the dry farms in rows 

 for seed, and this use of the crop is spreading as such seed is of the 

 highest quality. 



CLOVER. 



Clover is the great Willamette Valley hay and seed crop. (See 

 above table). Much is grown on the Central Oregon irrigated 

 lands. High yielding both as hay and seed crop and very valuable as 

 hay, pasture, soiling, seed and fertility-restoring crop, no country 

 anywhere, excells Oregon in clover growing and few equal her. Four 

 tons per acre is not an uncommon yield. The common or medium 

 red clover is the chief variety, although a great deal of alsike is grown 

 on the wetter lands. These two are grown both for seed and hay and 

 soiling purposes the seed crops being especially profitable. Yields 

 of six or seven bushels of red clover seed per acre are frequent. White 

 clover is in the pastures everywhere and crimson clover is grown as a 

 winter cover and green manuring crop. 



