ALFALFA 



and the thorough inoculation with the right 

 bacteria that may come only with time will do 

 much to insure success. The unwisdom of making 

 seedings in ground filled with grass and other weed 

 seeds will be appreciated. It is quite probable 

 that much successful seeding will be made in 

 wheat and oats, where the alfalfa is to stand only 

 one or two years. These practices are not for 

 the beginner. His land is not thoroughly supplied 

 with bacteria, and every chance should be given 

 the alfalfa. 



If there are no annual grasses, such as appear so 

 freely in some regions in mid-summer, spring 

 seeding is excellent. A cover crop is then de- 

 sirable, and nothing is better for this purpose than 

 barley at the rate of 4 pecks of seed per acre, 

 In all experimental work 25 pounds of bright, 

 plump alfalfa seed per acre should be sown. The 

 seeding should be made as soon as spring comes, 

 the barley being drilled in, and the seed-spouts 

 of the drill thrown forward so that the alfalfa will 

 fall ahead of the hoes and be covered by them. 



Seeding in August. Much land is infested 

 with annual grasses and other weeds, and in such 

 case seedings should be made in August, as de- 

 scribed in Chapter VIII. 



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