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responsive. It is absolutely easy to grow alfalfa. 
There are no longer any mysteries about it. To teach 
the way so plain that anyone can follow and no one 
longer will fail is the purpose of this book. 
The writer is very earnest in this purpose. He 
repeats absolutely it is true that every farmer may 
have his alfalfa field if he has soil with water level 
down 36”, or soil that may have the water level so 
lowered, and soil not entirely composed of peat. 
Sands, clays, alluvial soils, all alike yield to the 
magic of alfalfa, all alike robe themselves in living 
green, all alike yield rich forage and are in turn en- 
riched themselves by the alfalfa growing upon them. 
There are keys to unlock the most stubborn soils. 
Today we have those keys. No longer should any 
man fail to make alfalfa grow. The day of ‘‘experi- 
menting’’ with alfalfa is over. The day of surely 
growing it has come. If any man will read carefully 
the plain directions in this book, will read and heed, 
he will grow alfalfa, whether he is in Maine or Mas- 
sachusetts, Dakota or Dahomey. 
