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cuttings a year. Have raised as much as three and 

 one-half tons to the acre at one cutting, and my highest 

 yield of seed per acre has been nine bushels. Hay is 

 cut when the plant is in bloom and cured until dry to 

 the touch of the hand. Stacking by hand makes the 

 best hay, as machinery is likely to pack it in bundles, 

 causing it to heat and become dusty. Hay in the 

 stack costs about$i.5operton. Baling costs $2.00 per 

 ton; one-hundred-pound bales are well esteemed, but 

 it is probable that large bales keep better than small 

 ones, if properly cured. Six bushels of seed is a com- 

 mon yield, and the cost of thrashing and cleaning is 

 probably twenty-five cents per bushel. For feeding 

 horses for slow work, the hay is better than clover or 

 timothy. For fattening purposes it is the best in the 

 world, for, while the animal lays on fat, it is never 

 feverish and always healthy. There is no difficulty in 

 ridding land of the plant, as a good team and sharp 

 plow will cut it out, without any trouble. I have 

 plowed fields of alfalfa under and put in oats, obtain- 

 ing three or four times the usual yield, and have known 

 of fifty bushels of wheat produced to the acre on 

 broken alfalfa sod." 



DFI.AWARE 



Mr. Hermans. Hazal, of Smyrna, says: "Alfalfa 

 has been given sufficient trial in Delaware by a num- 

 ber of land-owners to prove that it can be grown, and 

 is profitable for hay. I have two acres seeded, thirty 

 pounds to the acre, in the spring of 1898, and cut four 

 times in 1899 — May 29, July 12, August 16, Septem- 

 ber 30 — with a total yield of thirteen tons of hay after 

 three days' curing. The first cutting gave six and a 



