TURKESTAN ALFALFA — A HARDY NKW VAKliSTy 7;j 



"When alfalfa land was plowed and planted to 

 potatoes it had $i6 worth more of potatoes per acre 

 than was obtained from land which had grown potatoes 

 and grain before. 



' ' By growing alfalfa, the above increase of yield 

 and values were produced with absolutely no cost for 

 fertilizing the land." 



TURKESTAN AiFALPA — A HARDY NEW VARIETY 



Within a year or two interest has sprung up in 

 what is claimed as a peculiarly hardy or cold and dry 

 weather-resisting variety of alfalfa from Asia, and 

 known as ' ' Turkestan. ' ' Prof. N. E. Hansen, of the 

 South Dakota Experiment Station, who was sent to 

 Asia by the United States Department of Agriculture 

 to investigate this plant, writes of it in March, 1900, 

 thus: 



"The usually severe winter of 1898-99 killed off 

 probably half of the alfalfa in Nebraska, Colorado, 

 Wyoming, and many fields in the central prairie 

 states to the eastward were badly damaged, but the 

 Turkestan alfalfa grown in the states mentioned was 

 not affedled. At the Wyoming Experiment Station a 

 plat of Turkestan alfalfa was exposed for two weeks 

 without injury to a daily temperature of thirty-five 

 degrees Fahrenheit, the lowest point reached being 

 forty-five degrees. In California it was subjedled 

 without damage to a drouth which seriously injured 

 ordinary alfalfa. 



' ' At the experiment station at Brookings, S. D. , 

 with a minimum temperature last winter of forty 

 degrees below zero, with the ground bare, the common 



