HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARMERS' MONTHLY 



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Continued from pag-e 8. column 1 

 on land where hay did not do any too 

 well, due to the light chaiacter of the 

 soil. The field was manured, plowed, 

 limed, fertilized and harrowed as sug- 

 gested above. One plot was seeded with 

 25 pounds of alfalfa while the second 

 received a mixture of 10 pounds each of 

 timothy, red clover and alfalfa. Last 

 year both plots yielded well, the plot hav- 

 ing the mixtui'e being largely clover and 

 alfalfa. This year the straight alfalfa 

 plot is a mixture of weeds and grasses 

 besides a good stand of alfalfa. The 

 mixture plot is a fine mixture of timothy, 

 clover and alfalfa and will give double 

 the tonage of the straight alfalfa plot. 

 In fact, it looks now as though this mix- 

 ture would outyield by considerable a plot 

 seeded just below it with the regular 

 timothy, red top, red and alsike clover 

 mixture although the latter is on better 

 hay land. 



Oranby Results 



Thornton Clark of Granby started a 

 similar demonstration plot in .July, 1921, 

 using a mixture of 10 pounds each of 

 orchard grass, red clover and alfalfa. 

 Last year this acre cut 44 tons of field 

 cured hay in three cuttings and this was 

 on land that the season before pi'oduced 

 twelve bushels of rye per acre. This 

 year the alfalfa is light but there will 

 be a fine crop of hay, made up chiefly 

 of orchard grass but with a good sprink- 

 ling of alfalfa and clover. Last year 

 Mr. Clark seeded three acres more to the 

 mixture using timothy instead of orchard 

 grass. This spring a top-dressing of 100 

 pounds nitrate of soda, 400 pounds acid 

 phosphate and 100 pounds muriate of 

 potash was applied. The field surely 

 looks fine at the present time. 



Fine Plot in Westhampton 



There is another demonstration plot in 

 Westhampton on the farm of Levi Burt 

 and Sons. It is on a sandy knoll where 

 neither corn nor hay did well. Last 

 .July the piece was manured, plowed, 

 limed and phosphated. Then it was 

 seeded with 10 pounds of timothy and 20 

 pounds of alfalfa. This spring the piece 

 was top-dressed with 100 pounds of ni- 

 trate of soda and while alfalfa is sup- 

 posed to get its nitrogen from the air 

 this top-dressing cei-tainly boosted it 

 along. It looks like a pure stand of al- 

 falfa and the Burts believe it will make 

 the best hay crop they ever had on the 

 field. It is worth seeing if you are ever 

 in Westhampton. 



Will You Try it ? 



We believe that for the man who really 

 wants to get alfalfa started it is better 

 to .start with the timothy-clover-alfalfa 

 mixture than with alfalfa alone. The 

 reasons are that it is cheaper, safer and 

 even if the alfalfa does not stay but one 

 Continued on pag"e 10, column 1 



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