SUMMARY OF ALFALFA SOWING. 493 
Second, the alfalfa must have its lime, manure, its 
phosphorus, its good seedbed, its inoculation. Given 
these things, it is the easiest crop to grow that I 
know, and the most profitable. I know also that 
one cannot tell what alfalfa is going to do before 
the second year. It may look most unpromising 
the first year and splendid the year following.’’ 
Alfalfa in Middle Georgia.—Loring Brown grows 
alfalfa near Atlanta with splendid success. The 
soil is typical of a vast region of red clays. He 
teaches the use of abundant supplies of lime, prefer- 
ably ground limestone, which is now available at 
reasonable rates. He also grows cowpeas, which 
he feeds well to make a strong growth for turning 
under. He disks and turns under the cowpeas in 
late August, and then thoroughly works the land to 
make a good seedbed. He uses inoculated soil and 
applies 600 pounds of acid phosphate, 300 pounds 
of bonemeal and 100 pounds of potash per acre. 
Now comes the astonishing part of his advice—the 
use of 50 pounds of seed to the acre. This he says 
makes so thick a stand that crabgrass can get no 
foothold the next year. He sows in September or 
October and cuts the next year from 4 to 10 tons 
per acre of hay. Personally, I believe half the 
amount of seed would give as thick a stand, and that 
it pays in any case to harrow alfalfa once or twice 
in summer in that latitude. He top-dresses with 
acid phosphate some time during the year, usually 
after the first cutting, I think. 
Loring Brown has a dairy and also many fowls. 
