THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXVIII 



CHICAGO, OCTOBER, 1913. 



No. 12 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



With which is Merged 



The National Land and Irrigation Journal 



MODBRN IRRIGATION THE DRAINAGE JOURNAL 



THE IRRIGATION ERA MID-WEST 



ARID AMERICA THE FARM HERALD 



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Raising of alsike clover for the seed 

 Alsike is getting to be a very profitable in- 



Seed a dustry in Idaho. Seed buyers un- 



Profitable hesitatingly give preference to the 



Crop Idaho-grown product, pronouncing it 



the best on the market. The thresh- 

 ing season is now at its height and a number of 

 large yields are reported. 



E. L. Wonacott, living two miles west of Kini- 

 berly, Idaho, threshed fifteen acres of alsike on Au- 

 gust 20th. From this area he obtained 180 bushels 

 of seed, an average of twelve bushels to the acre. 

 At $9 a bushel, the regular market price, this was 

 worth $1,620, an average of $108 an acre. 



R. A. Kennedy, Twin Falls, is another man 

 who has found the growing of alsike seed a good 

 thing. He had twelve acres this year, from which 

 he secured 132 bushels, for which he obtained 

 $1,188, or $99 an acre. 



L. A. Snyder, Twin Falls, has also done well 

 in this line. He had a number of acres this year 

 which averaged him something over $84 an acre. 



It certainly pays to raise seed at these prices, 

 to say nothing of the feeding value of the hay that 

 is left. 



Many men have been employed re- 

 More cently near Nampa, Idaho, in cutting 

 About wild sweet clover along the ditches 

 Sweet and roadways. The work is being 

 Clover done for a local milling company, 

 which will stack the clover and later 

 thrash it for seed, that will be used in the manufac- 

 ture of dye and also for planting in soils lacking in 

 humus. 



The clover is cut with scythes and immediately 

 stacked to prevent the loss of seed by drying. An 

 ordinary clover huller is to be used to separate the 

 seed. 



This journal published an article some months 

 ago concerning sweet clover and its proven value 

 in feeding sheep, but only recently have we heard 

 of its seed being used for commercial dye. 



The value of sweet clover as a leguminous plant 

 has long been known, but it is only recently that 

 it has been harvested for profit in a commercial 

 way. 



On sandy and depleted soils it is said to have a 

 valuable capacity for appropriating free nitrogen 

 from the air and storing it in the roots of the 

 plants. It is a valuable fertilizer, and it is pre- 



