96 ALFALFA FARMING IN AMERICA. 
one needs to know about alfalfa growing. Just give 
drainage enough, give air enough in the soil, give 
lime enough, give seed, and alfalfa is the surest 
plant to grow there is.’’ And this is true. Only 
these simple things need be known: to make the land 
dry, to make the land sweet with lime, or a little 
more than sweet, fairly alkaline with lime, then to 
make it fertile and sow good seed with faith and 
inoculation. 
What agricultural joys will follow such simple 
doings as these! What beautifying of landscapes, 
what riches in animal life, what wealth of farms and 
homes and villages! Upon such simple fundamentals 
do great things rest. 
