INTRODUCTION. Al 
we do not expect quite so good corn as 
we had when we grew it on alfalfa sod. As 
before, clean cultivation is given. We are especially 
careful to destroy all fox-tail grass before it seeds. 
This land is now to be sown to alfalfa. If it needs 
lime that is applied as convenience suggests, when- 
ever the teams are idle and the land is hard enough 
to drive on. We use finely ground raw limestone 
rock, not burned. We use about 4 tons to the acre 
of this. It cost us only $1.25 per ton on cars. The 
land is plowed as deep as the plows will run, making 
the furrows narrow. We would plow 24” deep if we 
could do so. Some day no doubt we will begin sub- 
soil work, and expect that to pay well. We like to 
do this plowing a month or more before time to seed 
alfalfa, so that the earth may settle well together 
again. In April we disk and prepare the land with 
some care, but not attempting to make any “ash 
heap” or ‘“‘onion bed,” as some advise, only a little 
better seedbed than one would make for corn. 
About April 10 we begin drilling. We use a fertil- 
izer drill that sows fertilizer, beardless spring 
barley and alfalfa seed. Of barley we sow 2 bushels 
to the acre; of alfalfa seed, 15 to 20 lbs.; of fertilizer 
(usually plain acid phosphate, sometimes bone meal) 
we use 300 to 500 lbs. per acre. We think it prob- 
able that the more we enrich the land the greater our 
profit is. We let the alfalfa seed fall in front of the 
drill sometimes, at other times behind the drill, ac- 
cording to the condition of the soil. If moist we do 
not roll but follow the drill with a plank drag. If 
