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ALFALFA 
Prices subject to market changes without notice. 
The great value of Alfalfa to the stockman eannot be 
over-estimated. No other forage crop combines so many ex- 
cellent feeding qualities. The fact that three or four heavy 
erops of it can be cut every season should alone be an in- 
centive to every farmer to put down at least a few acres of 
it. Alfalfa can be grown successfully in every state in the 
Union; the soil, however, should be deep and well drained. 
It wiil not succeed on heavy, sticky clay ground, or where 
water stands a short distance below the surface. Before 
sowing the seed see that the ground is well prepared by 
being thoroughly pulverized. Any extra work put on the 
ground at this time will be well repaid in the crop. If sown 
in spring, wait until the ground is warm, sowing from 20 to 
30 lbs. of seed to the acre. 
LUCERNE. 
The crop should be cut for hay just as it is coming into 
bloom. A safe guide is to watch for the starting of the new 
basil shoots, which form the growth for the next crop, be- 
fore cutting. If the weather is fine the morning’s cuttings 
should be raked inio windrows the same afternoon, and 
cocked the following day. 
We recommend using Northern grown seed. The U. S. 
Department of Agriculture in its investigations finds that 
the farther north the seed is grown the hardier it is likely 
to be, and to meet these requirements we have secured a 
stock of strictly pure, recleaned Northern grown seed. 
Extra choice recleaned seed, per lb., 30c (by mail, 35c per 
Ib.). By freight or express at buyer’s expense, 10 Ibs., $2.50; 
100 Ibs., $21.00. 
Alfalfa. 
TURKESTAN ALFALFA. 
Exceedingly valuable for dry, arid sections. The climate 
of Turkestan is very similar to our interior western states, 
the summers being long and very hot. Here cattle raising is 
It is 
from this section we secure our stock of seed. Not only does 
this variety withstand the dry weather better than any 
other, but it has the further merit of being able to come 
through the severest winters without harm. At the Experi- 
ment Station, Brookings, S. D., common Alfalfa winter killed 
on bare ground at a minimum temperature of 40 degrees be- 
earried on extensively and Alfalfa is the main crop. 
low zero, while Turkestan came through unharmed. 
We offer strictly choice dodder-free seed of Turkestan 
Alfalfa. 
Price per Ib., 30e (by mail, 35¢ per lb.). By freight or 
express at buyer’s expense, 10 Ibs., $2.50; 100 Ibs., $20.00. 
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SAND LUCERNE. 
This variety is especially adapted to thin, sandy soil, 
yielding heavy crops where other sorts of Alfalfa failed. 
The Michigan Experiment Station reports 5 tons of cured hay 
of Sand Lucerne to the acre on sandy ground. 
It has proved valuable for the sandy fruit lands in Mich- 
igan, but is not equal to Alfalfa on medium or rich soils. 
_ Per Ib., 35e (by mail, 40c per lb.). By freight or express 
at buyer’s expense, 10 lbs., $3.00; 100 lbs., $27.50. 
Alfalfa Seed is shipped in Seamless Bags. 
ordering, add 20ec for each bag required. 
When 
THE BOOK OF ALFALFA. 
A valuable treatise on the history, cultivation and 
merits of Alfalfa. Illustrated, 370 pages. Cloth, $1.00 by 
mail, 
