128 ALFALFA 



be sowed where it can be grown for further sowihg. 

 In this way the plant will become so acclimated that 

 on suitable soils it may be grown with much regularity 

 and certainty. ' ' 



MISSISSIPPI 



W. I/. Hutchinson, diredtor of the Mississippi, sta 

 tion, says: "Very little alfalfa has been planted in 

 this state except in this immediate vicinity. Col. W. 

 B. Montgomery, of Starkville, has about 200 acres, 

 which is probably much the largest area found on any 

 one farm in the state. It is planted on second bottom, 

 with an alluvial soil and plenty of lime. It has suc- 

 ceeded as well as could be desired. Wherever the 

 land was thoroughly drained it has done well, at least 

 for a while, but at present we have no alfalfa on the 

 station farm, though we had some twenty-five or thirty 

 acres at one time. I believe about the only thing that 

 interferes with the crop in this state is that in the 

 spring our soil gets very wet — saturated, in fadl — and 

 wherever it remains so for a week the alfalfa is killed. 

 Give us deep, thorough drainage, and I have no doubt 

 but alfalfa wiU do well in all parts of the state. We 

 have a large area of alluvial land between Memphis 

 and Vicksburg, known as the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta, 

 where the soils are from five to forty-five feet deep, 

 and of the very best material, which once was surface 

 soil somewhere. If this land is properly drained for 

 alfalfa it probably would be as widely known for its 

 wonderful produAiveness of this crop as it is known 

 for its cotton produdlion. Outside of this sedlion are 

 large areas of creek bottom and valley that are similar 

 in every respect." 



