Alfalfa May be the South's Salvation. 



***1F ^ cotton remains at 6 cents, the salvation of this country 



■' will be the growing of alfalfa." 



I got this new thought from a successful Montgomery 

 County farmer, a man who raises both alfalfa and stock. And 

 it might be incidentally mentioned that wherever alfalfa is 

 there, too, is stock and cattle, and wherever good stock and 

 cattle are being raised for profit, there, too, will quickly come 

 the growing of alfalfa. The two seem inseparable. 



But the possibilities of alfalfa, the remarks to its value 

 as a substitute for cotton, interested a man whose business it 

 ir to ask questions, to gather information and set it down as 

 acurately as he may. There has been much written about 

 alfalfa in Southern newspapers in recent months, but the av- 

 erage man, the average newspaper reader, has a hazy idea of 

 what it is. He is not quite sure whether it is a new breakfast 

 food, or the name of a town in which the Japanese and Rus- 

 sians fought a bloody battle. The well-informed farmer, and, 

 by the way, it is not generally known that the intelligent farmer 

 has a wider store of general information than the average in- 

 telligent business man, the well informed farmer knows that 

 alfalfa is one of the richest, one of the most fruitful of all 

 forage plants. 



It is a Western plant, a sort of a Mormon product, for it 

 is said to thrive best in the states' like Idaho and Utah, where 

 the Mormons are numerous, thrifty and poyerful, and it is 

 also vigorous, prolific and profitable in the far Western States 

 of California. In those sections out West where irrigation 

 i.: an important agricultural factor, alfalfa does especially well, 

 so well that it has been said that this forage plant does best 

 on irrigated land. The yield of alfalfa hay on irrigated acres 

 in the West runs between eight and ten tons. 



GROWING OF ALFALFA, 



It is one of the several experimental ideas of agriculture that 

 has gained a footing in Montgomery County in the very recent 

 past. It has not been grown in the county longer than three 



