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or stone ditches that have a stream of water running 

 in the drains during dry weather, it will fill them with 

 rootlets and clog the drains. I have at a depth of six 

 feet had it shut off a water supply to a water-ram. 

 Had every farm a supply of alfalfa, it would be worth 

 millions of dollars to this country. I have no failures 

 to report." 



NORTH CAROIvINA 



Prof. B. Irby, agriculturist of the agricultural 

 college, writes of alfalfa in North Carolina, saying: 

 "Lucerne does very poorly for this state, generally 

 speaking; but in the stiff red soils in the middle sedlion 

 I have seen a magnificent crop grow on the same land 

 for years in succession, being ciit as many as five times 

 in one year, and making a heavy yield of hay besides 

 affording some pasture. On our sandy lands it does 

 pradlically nothing. I have sown it here on the 

 college farm several times, but have met with little 

 encouragement. I would not recommend.it to our 

 farmers generally. No enemies to speak of have been 

 developed here, as very little has been grown." 



NORTH DAKOTA 



Prof. J. H. Shepperd, of the agricultural college, 

 says: "A number of trials with alfalfa have been made 

 in this state in addition to those made at the station, and 

 we have not heard of any one who has made a pronounced 

 success with it. The difficulty seems to have come 

 from failure to obtain a stand. At the station the 

 failure is attributed to the soil and subsoil being very 

 heavy and difficult to penetrate. Superintendent Hover- 

 Btadt, of the Crookston station, put it very well con- 



