ALFALFA IN ALGERIA. 
In France and Algeria, according to Bulletin 33 of 
Gouvernement General De L’Algeria, deep plowing 
for alfalfa is urged. The soil should be stirred to a 
depth of at least 20 inches. There alfalfa is some- 
times drilled in rows 16” apart. The rate of seeding 
advised for Algeria is about 16 lbs. per acre when 
sown broadcast or 12 lbs. when sown in drills. Men- 
tion is made of a field where the yields of ‘‘fourraige 
frais’’ or green fodder, in three or four cuttings in 
successive years made 8, 16, 22’ and finally 32 tons 
per acre. In that land they have learned the need 
of lime and recommend large amounts, also of phos- 
phorus and advise the use of 1,000 lbs. per hectare 
or about 400 Ibs. per acre of superphosphate. 
Mention is made also of the fact that there is a 
native race of alfalfa in the oases of the Sahara 
desert and that alfalfa from southwestern America 
thrives in Algeria better than seed from France. 
This bulletin states the peculiar fact that alfalfa 
thrives in Algeria in small fields, well enriched, well 
plowed, well cared for, but that it is not usually 
very successful in large fields. 
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