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lialf tons of hay. I have cut it twice already this 

 season (1900), June 5 getting 11,000 pounds, and 

 July 9 getting 6,680 pounds, making a total of eight 

 tons and i , 680 pounds. My ground is partly a side-hill 

 of ordinary land, and I do not think it would grow 

 more than forty bushels of corn to the acre. The 

 alfalfa seems to be very permanent; its greatest plant 

 enemies are sorrel and white clover; no insedl enemies 

 have been observed. I am of the opinion that it 

 would be injurious to pasture it in this climate. I cut 

 it when about half in bloom, and value it very highly 

 for all kinds of stock. It sells for $9 per ton. Mr. 

 John P. Hudson, of this town, has been mowing his 

 field for the past fourteen years, and Mr. Wilbur 

 Burmite, of Felton, has been mowing a field for 

 twenty years, and there are many others growing it 

 with success." 



GEORGIA 



R. J. Redding, diretftor of the experiment station, 

 writes: "Alfalfa is a success in this state, and does 

 best on well-drained, deep, rich, sandy loam, clean of 

 weeds. The land should be deeply plowed and well 

 fined before seeding, and it is best to sow in drills 

 twenty to thirty inches apart, covering the seeds a half 

 inch deep. Sowing is done in September or Odtober, 

 or in February or March, and ten pounds of seed per 

 acre is used. The alfalfa is cultivated shallow three 

 or four times during the season to keep weeds dovyn. 

 It is cut for feed when the blooms commence to appear, 

 and may be mown three to six times a year, yielding 

 three to five tons of green forage per acre at each cut- 

 ting, varying with the season. The crop is used to 



