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up in the Spring but the grass got the better of it. We cHpped 

 the grass several times during the summer and the next Spring 

 plowed up all but one little spot on top of a hill close to a tree. 

 You had better sow the high land, do not sow the low land where 

 you have water level near the surface. The next year we sowed 

 that again and we got a little better result, got a fairly good stand 

 that year. That year we sowed ten acres. The next year we 

 sowed five acres on a different plan, plowed the ground early in 

 the Spring, • then disced and harrowed the ground to kill the 

 weeds, gave them time to germinate and went over them again. 

 That year we sowed about the middle of June and got an excel- 

 lent stand; the next year we did the same thing but I think we 

 sowed the fourth of July in this case and we got a good stand. 

 Last Spring we disced the soil carefully and about the of July 

 we had that soil in as nearly a perfect condition as we could get 

 it ; we sowed 20 lbs. to the acre and we had a fine stand. Last 

 Fall it got up quite high but we did not cut it ; it was on a special 

 piece of ground where we wanted to keep a good stand. We 

 let it go and so we have twenty acres of good stand of alfalfa. 

 The first year on the first ten acres we got three or four tons to 

 the acre; the next year we got over six tons of dry hay to the 

 acre. Compare that to" your timothy hay. Last year we only 

 got about four tons because the season was colder and much more 

 moist with us and that was not favorable to alfalfa. Now that 

 is our best method, not use a nurse crop but keep the weeds down 

 until later in the season and then sow your alfalfa. We always 

 inoculate the soil, and you can use soil from the place where this 

 sweet clover has grown but be careful to take off the top so as 

 not to get too much sweet clover seed. It seems the same bacteria 

 which work on sweet clover on alfalfa. 



Q. — If you had a poor stand of alfalfa would you disc it or 

 plow all the rest of the alfalfa ? 



Professor Hayden: — Last year I told you one piece was 

 partly froze out. We went on that with a disc, it happened to 

 be a loose piece of ground. We disced it over several times and 

 sowed it again, but when we got through discing there was not 

 much of the old alfalfa left, but we got a good stand on that field. 



Mr. Campbell : — How often do you manure your alfalfa 

 field? 



