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for working-horses. After cutting three crops in a 

 season, I usually use the field in the fall for pasturing 

 cattle, and it furnishes nearly double the feed the red 

 clover will, acre for acre. For hogs the pasturage is 

 much better than clover, and I sow with blue-grass 

 and clover on rich ground. For horses and sheep the 

 pasturage is better than clover, but causes bloat in 

 cattle in the same way. It is difficult to plow up 

 alfalfa, but continued cultivation will rid land of it 

 when desired." 



WISCONSIN 



Prof. S. M. Babcock, assistant diredlor of the sta- 

 tion at Madison, says: " We have had little experi- 

 ence with alfalfa at the station, never having more 

 than a small plot at one time. I do not think it is 

 raised as a forage crop in this state — certainly not to 

 any great extent." 



WYOMING 



B. C. Buffum, vice-diredlor of the experiment sta- 

 tion at Laramie, refers to bulletins published by his 

 station which give the magnificent results obtained 

 with alfalfa in that state. "Its points of advantage 

 over other hay crops are, (i), its large yield per acre; 

 (2), its hardiness, after getting started, standing 

 drouth well; (3), its high nutritive value, any kind of 

 stock making flesh and fat upon it without other 

 food, and (4) instead of impoverishing the soil it en- 

 riches and leaves it in fine condition for any other 

 crop, as do the clovers and other leguminous plants. 



" Alfalfa does well upon almost any land that will 

 produce other crops, providing it is not too wet or 



