50 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



Judge Lynch : From two to three tons. If the season is 

 good we can usually get four crops, but always three crops. It 

 ought to average four to five tons per acre each year. 



Member : How would Kansas seed do ? 



Judge Lynch : If it was not from along some irrigated 

 ditches it would be all right. 



Mr. Mason : Do you top dress the alfalfa? 



Judge Lynch: I think it an advisable thing to do. It helps 

 to maintain the fertility of the soil in replacing the phosphorous 

 and other minerals and it also acts as a protection against the 

 winter. 



Mr. Mason: Do you leave the top dressing all winter? 



Judge Lynch : I would never cut it so there would not be 

 some growth before winter. 



President: Is Mr. Dickerson present? If so, I am sure he 

 would like to give us a little help on alfalfa. Won't you tell us 

 what you are doing on your farm ? 



Mr. Dickerson — Growing Alfalfa. 



I did not come here with the intention of saying anything 

 about alfalfa. I came to listen, but not to expound my theories. 



We have grown alfalfa for three years. W T e have grown it 

 successfully where the gravel comes near the surface and we are 

 growing it at the rate of from four and a half and five tons to the 

 acre. 



This year we got two tons to the acre the first cutting, the 

 second cutting there was nearly two tons, and the last cutting 

 we got over a half ton, and it still had time to grow and leave 

 enough on the ground so it will hold some of the snow and pro- 

 tect it during the winter. 



