BULLETIN No. 154 ' JUNE, 1914 



MASSACHISETTS 

 AGRICILTIRAL EXPERIMENT STATION 



ALFALFA 



By WILLIAM P. BROOKS. 



This bulletin presents the author's estimate of alfalfa as a 

 crop for Massachusetts farmers. It gives the results of both home 

 and co-operative experiments to date, describes the methods of 

 soil preparation, fertilization and seeding which seem likely to 

 prove the most successful; discusses the principal obstacles to 

 success, and the best methods of meeting them; and gives di- 

 rections for the general management of the crop. 



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Agricultural Experiment Station, 



Amherst, Mass. 



