PLOWING ALFALFA SOD. 
A well set alfalfa sod is a hard thing to plow. It 
takes power and time to break it. And yet, for a 
given amount of energy applied in plowing one will 
get much greater returns in an alfalfa sod than he 
will with any other sort of plowing, so he need not 
feel aggrieved at the resistance of the alfalfa roots. 
The longer the alfalfa thas stood the larger and 
tougher the roots are. Alfalfa only a year or two 
old plows not much unlike red clover sod. It is the 
old field that gives one a tussle. To attempt to 
plow that with a dull plow, a poor team and broken 
harness is to waste one’s energy. 
The Right Way.—On the other hand, rightly gone 
at alfalfa sod is a delight to plow. One needs a 
good team, three heavy horses, a first-class plow 
(preferably a walking plow, not a sulky or rid- 
ing plow, which rarely is successful in alfalfa sod). 
He wants two good shares and then to keep one of 
them in the blacksmith’s shop most of the time, 
being sharpened; a sober, intelligent man holding 
the plow, with a file in his boot leg, then plowing 
alfalfa sod is as easy a job as one would care for, 
only it is rather slow work. We plow in the fall 
usually or early winter. The field that is to be 
plowed is mowed late. It is as well to save that last 
growth, and it will weaken the roots somewhat to 
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