1 56 Soiling. 



Requirements : 



1. Fresh, clean seed. 



2. Thorough preparation of soil after buckwheat 

 or a hoed crop, and a well pulverized seed bed. 



3. Any soil with porous subsoil, which must be so 

 open and so located as not to have standing water 

 either on top or in subsoil. With these requisites 

 and a good start success is assured. I am so 

 sanguine of its proving a success under the above 

 conditions that I. quote at length the following, 

 confirming mj'^ own experience, and showing even 

 much better results: 



Alfalfa or Lucern. 

 United States Bulletin. 



" Grows in every State in the Union where condi- 

 tions of the soil are favorable. As a soiling crop, it 

 has no superior. From three to four cuttings a year 

 can be obtained. 



" It is not a new plant by any means. A native 

 of Western Asia, and, says Jared G. Smith in United 

 States Bulletin No. 31, was introduced into Greece 

 at the time of the Persian war, about 470 B.C. From 

 Italy it was introduced into Spain and the south of 

 France. It was carried into Mexico at the time of 

 the Spanish invasion, and thence to the west coast 

 of South America. It was brought from Chili to 

 California in 1854, and from there it rapidly spread 

 over the arid regions of the Pacific Coast and the 



