96 ALFALFA FARMING IN AMERICA. 



one needs to know about alfalfa growing. Just give 

 drainage enough, give air enough in the soil, give 

 lime enough, give seed, and alfalfa is the surest 

 plant to grow there is." And this is true. Only 

 these simple things need be known : to make the land 

 dry, to make the land sweet with lime, or a little 

 more than sweet, fairly alkaline with lime, then to 

 make it fertile and sow good seed with faith and 

 inoculation. 



What agricultural joys will follow such simple 

 doings as these! What beautifying of landscapes, 

 what riches in animal life, what wealth of farms and 

 homes and villages ! Upon such simple fundamentals 

 do great things rest. 



