222 THE BOOK OF ALFALFA 



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3. Failure through harvesting and stacking. I 



4. Injury from insects or disease. • 

 These are practically all the things that need occasion 



serious vexation. Of course alfalfa calls for more work , 



in harvesting than corn, or clover, or timothy; but one 

 acre of prosperous alfalfa is worth two or three of corn, i 



or clover or timothy, even for market, while for feeding J 



purposes the difference is even greater. The "poor" 1 



farmer, the lazy farmer, the "corner grocery" farmer j 



should not sow alfalfa. ' 



