INDEX. 



Air, nitrogen In the, .225. 

 Alabama, alfalfa in, 74, 495. 

 Alfalmo, 41g. 

 Algeria, alfalfa in, 474. 

 Alfalfa, a balanced feed, 406. 



a desert plant, 84. 



a soil enricher, 234. 



action of on horses' kidneys, 

 375. 



after crimson clover, 164. 



after oats, 213. 



alsike clover and, 269. 



ants In, 427. 



Arabian, 82. 



as a pasture plant, 336. 



Babylonian, 48. 



bacteria, 37, 85, 86, 224. 



baling hay, 356. 



barns for hay, 466. • 



bees and, 345. 



bloating on, 338. 



bloom test, the, and time to 

 cut, 293. 



bran and, 359. 



bread from, 360. 



brome grass and, 270. 



brood mares and, 377. 



cattle feeding on, 380. 



cattle finished on, 352. 



cattle grazing on, 346. 



cattle on in South America, 

 351. 



chemical composition of, 362. 



corn after, 155. 



cost of growing, 243, 245. 



crimson clover with, 163. 



crop rotation and, 237. 



cultivating, 254. 



culture of, .95. 



curing in the mow, 300. 



cut, when to, 157. 



cut when shoots appear, 90. 



cutting for soiling weakens, 

 89. 



cutting invigorates, 91. 



cutting in the West, time of, 

 299 



cutting, the first, 294. 



cutting, time of, 293. 



dairying and, 387. 



developed in dry regions, 48. 



digestibility of, 366. 



diseases of, 266. 



disking, 254. 



dodder in, 264. 



Alfalfa- 

 drainage for, 102. 

 drouths and, 93. 

 duration of stand, 239. 

 early cutting of harmful, 325. 

 ewes on, 395. 

 experiment station on feeding 



dairy cows, 388. 

 fall seeding of, 204. 

 fall seeding of a mistake, 486. 

 first growth of, 88. 

 for horses, 373. 

 for poultry, 335. 

 foxtail in, 41. 

 frosted, dangerous, 343. 

 Germany, alfalfa in, 52. 

 Germany's yellow-blooming 



518. 

 gophers In, 424. 

 grasses in, 258. 

 grasshoppers in, 426. 

 grazing, advantages of, 340. 

 grazing sheep on, 393. 

 Greeks and, 49. 

 green, curing, 317. 

 green in dairy rations, 328. 

 Grimm, 82, 518. 

 growth of, 84. 

 hardy, 82, 517. 

 hardiness of, 92. 

 hardy types of, 81. 

 hay, feeding sheep, 396. 



green or brown, 300. 



harvesting in the West, 299. 



in prairie lands, 497. 



making in rainy countries, 

 309. 



value of, 121. 



yields of, 41. 

 haying tools, 302. 

 Hawaii, growing in, 473. 

 history of, 46. 

 honey from, 99. 

 hogs fed, 402. 

 hogs on, 344. 



hogs on in Nebraska, 413. 

 hogs on in Oklahoma, 410. 

 ice will kill, 93. 

 inoculation, 199, 207, 211, 220. 

 irrigating, 277. 

 irrigation of, grown for seed, 



"100. 

 .Tohnson grass and, 498. 

 lambs, fed, 29. 



late mowing of injurious, 91. 

 .- life: of field of, 94. 



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