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(MEDICAGO SATIVA) 
This clover-like, leguminous plant is perhaps the most valuable 
permanent cropper for forage and hay that is grown, yielding, 
when established, regardless of drought, enormous crops annually 
for many years. Three to six cuttings are usually harvested per 
season, aggregating three to eight tons of cured hay per acre, and 
a yield of eight to twelve tons under favorable conditions is not | 
unusual. The feeding value of Alfalfa is very high, being rich in 
protein—the blood, muscle and bone-forming elements required 
for growing animals; it is also a rich milk and butter producer when | 
fed to cows. It is greatly relished by all stock either in pasture or 
cut and fed green or as cured hay, and they all thrive on it, though 
there is danger that cattle and sheep may bloat if turned into a 
luxuriant pasture of Alfalfa while the dew is on. 
_Alfalfa is a great improver of the soil, gathering nitrogen from the 
air and adding it with humus to the soil when the deep-rooted 
stubble is plowed under, thus putting the land in fine condition 
for following crops. Alfalfa may be successfully grown in almost 
every State in the Union when the essential conditions can be supplied. 
Its best development is attained under the particularly congenial 
conditions in the Western and Pacific Coast States, yet its cultiva- 
tion is rapidly increasing in the Middle and Eastern States, as its 
Tequirements and culture are better understood. The Alfalfa plant 
grows three to five feet high and sends a single tap root down into 
the soil eight to twelve feet, and in deep, sandy soils twenty to thirty 
The Alfalfa Seed I got from you a year ago did fine. Have had two crops, and 
good prospects for a third.” C. E. SCHMUCKER, Watsontown, Pa. 
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ALFALFA ON ALLEGHANY CoO., HARD PAN, 
From Country Gentleman, Albany, N. Y. 
LUCERN 
ary Soe Re-Cleaned Alfalfa Seed, on estate of Paul 
Opens up the Subsoil. Adds Nitrogen and Humus 
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| feet; in consequence, it thrives best where soil and subsoil will 
permit of deep penetration of the roots about which water must not 
stand. A congenial soil is sandy loam with permeable subsoil, 
though it will thrive in any sweet, well-drained soil excepting 
heavy clay and low, wetland. Calcareous soil suits it especially well. 
Another essential is to get the plants well established. The young 
seedlings being rather delicate, the best results have been attained 
| in the East where the seed has been drilled in during the summer in 
rows twelve to eighteen inches apart and then cultivated; by this 
method, the young plants keep ahead of the weeds and get a good, 
strong start, after which they are able to care for themselves. A small 
crop may then be taken off late in the season, provided it is cut early 
enough to allow five or six leaves to develop before winter sets in, 
or is cut about six inches above the ground. Full cropping must not 
be expected until the second year, but after a field of Alfalfa is estab- 
lished it lasts for a lifetime, continuing to yield annually, regardless 
of droughts, phenomenal crops, amply repaying the expenditure of 
time and trouble. Alfalfa should be cut as soon as it begins to flower. 
The time to sow in the North and Eastern States is June, July 
or August, 30 to 40 lbs. per acre if broadcasted or 25 to 30 Ibs. if 
drilled in; in the South sow in Feburary or September. (See cut.) 
Price, Henderson’s Superior Alfalfa Seed, 30c. per lb.; $16.25 
per bushel of 60 Ibs.; $26.00 per 100 lbs. 
“Please send me \% bushel of your Alfalfa Seed. That I got from you last 
season did sblendidly.”’ FRANK HOFFMAN, Analomink, Pa. 
TWELFTH CONSECUTIVE CUTTING ON HARD-PAN LAND 
That Alfalfa can be grown ona great variety of soils, we are continu- 
ally having proved to us. The letter printed below gives the experience 
of a practical farmer in growing Alfalfa on hard-pan land. 
HILL CREST FARM 
“The Home of the Jerseys” 
J. F. LANGwortTHy, 
Owner. 
ALFRED, N. Y., Sept. 26th, 
1910. 
PETER HENDERSON & Co.: 
I am sending you a photo of my Alfalfa field, 
growing five years last May and this is the tw 
thing over two tons per acre. I now have a ; 
Showing an even stand from eighleen to twe 
to cut, which proves conclusively that Alfalfa can be 
land if rightly managed. You are at liberty to print t 
Catalogue. I have had quite a number of the Stat 
it. They have contended that it was not possible 
subsoil. I think I have proved otherwise.—Respectful 
JOHN F. 
LANGWORTHY. 
