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usually follows some other crop. If preceded by grain the 

 stubble is first pastured, preferably by sheep, plowed in 

 the fall to a depth of 7 to 10 inches, and then allowed to 

 lie until the following spring, when it is disked, harrowed, 

 and seeded. 



Experience has shown that it is difficult in the course 

 of six months or a year to secure a good stand of alfalfa 

 on raw land that has been covered by a desert growth. 

 This is true particularly of rough, uneven land on which 

 crop rotation is not to be practiced. It is likewise true 

 of land thickly coverel with brush. It has been found im- 

 practicable in most localities to secure a smooth, well- 

 graded surface where fresh roots interfere with the proper 

 use of all grading and leveling implements. The same is 

 true of hog-wallow land, where considerable soil has to be 

 removed from the high places and deposited in the low 

 places. It takes time and a second preparation of the 

 surface before fields of this character can be put in good 

 condition for the growth and irrigation of alfalfa. If 

 crop rotation is to be followed the necessity for a prepar- 

 atory crop is not so urgent, since the alfalfa will soon be 

 plowed under to give place to another crop. In northern 

 Colorado, where alfalfa usually follows either potatoes 

 or sugar beets, the surface is not plowed, but merely har- 

 rowed or disked in the spring just before seeding. If the 

 surface is uneven, it is smoothed and leveled by means of 

 a float or drag before the seed is put in. In southwestern 

 Kansas it is likewise considered best to plant alfalfa after 

 some cultivated crop which has held the weeds in check. 

 The land is plowed in the fall to a depth of 6 inches, dou- 

 ble-disked in the spring after the weeds have started, and 

 is subsequently harrowed. In the vicinity of Los Banos, 

 Cal., new land is almost invariably sown to barley or corn 

 for two seasons before seeding to alfalfa. In Utah wheat 

 or oats is preferred as a preparatory crop. The chief 

 purpose of all such preparatory grain crops is to allow 

 fresh roots of the original plant covering to decay, filled-in 

 spots to settle, high places denuded of the upper layer 

 of soil to weather, and in general to prepare a well-pulver- 

 ized seed bed in a smooth, well-graded field. 



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lister, 

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(Continued from page 158.) 



CORRECTIONS OF STATEMENTS IN SECOND 

 PAPER (JANUARY ISSUE). 



Utah State Board Land Commissioners. 

 H. Farnsworth, secretary; vice, Thos. C. Cal- 

 South Dakota. Carey Land Act Board, principal 

 Samuel H. Lea, state engineer. 



Rights of Married Women to File. 



Idaho. Not permitted to file. 



Wyoming. Permitted to file. 



Colorado. Question not decided. 



Utah. Permitted to file. 



Montana. (Correction of typographical error.) Per- 

 mitted to file if the head of the family, through physical 

 incapacity, or incarceration for crime of the husband. 



Oregon. Permitted to file. 



New Mexico and South Dakota. No data. 



It is well to remember that married women, to file, 

 must be citizens of the United States and that entries must 

 be made (as to time and place) in a manner permitting 

 acceptable final proof in case husband and wife both make 

 entry, as husband and wife must reside together, to per- 

 form legal residence. 



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