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ters for growing it are the northwest and the south- 

 east, but in other areas it has also done well. In 

 Kansas it will grow well in all parts of the State 

 where the subsoil is porous. It has been cut for hay- 

 in that State in less than 60 days from the date of 

 sowing. It grows equally well over at least two- 

 thirds of Nebraska, especially the eastern half, and 

 its growth in Nebraska is rapidly extending. In 

 the Arkansas valley it luxuriates, and it is also be- 

 ing grown in Oklahoma. In Louisiana immense 

 fields are being grown along the Red River and in 

 other parts of the State. In Texas it is being grown 

 more or less north, east and south, and especially in 

 the valley of the Brazos. 



In the Southern States alfalfa has not in many 

 instances been given a good chance where tried. The 

 plants have too frequently had to contend there as 

 elsewhere with ill-prepared and weedy soils and im- 

 prudent pasturing. Yet it is being grown with con- 

 siderable success, though as yet in limited areas, in 

 all the Southern States. It has done well in parts 

 of Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama, 

 and in Georgia are some alfalfa meadows 25 years 

 old. In the other Southeastern States, viz., Vir- 

 ginia, the Carolinas and Florida, it does well only 

 in areas more or less circumscribed, but it has been 

 grown with some success even in the rainy climate 

 of Southern Florida. 



In the States northward from the Ohio River, that 

 is, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin, 

 the necessity for growing alfalfa has not been so 

 much felt as in some other States, because of the 



