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^'We see occasional references to 'dry land' alfalfa 

 and statements that it's a kind that just longs for the 

 hilltops so that it may turn off big crops of rich hay from 

 land too dry and hard to yield good sorghum. Don't for- 

 get that the one thing to look for when purchasing alfalfa 

 seed is good seed, that will grow. It's hard to find and 

 the price is usually high. When you buy it, buy subject 

 to test and send a fair sample of about an ounce to your 

 experiment station, where it will be tested without charge. 

 At the present time there is but one variety of alfalfa that 

 Oklahoma farmers should buy, and that is good alfalfa 

 seed. There is no 'dry land' variety of alfalfa, and the 

 much boomed Turkestan variety isn't as good for sowing 

 in Oklahoma as Oklahoma or Kansas grown seed. Rich 

 soil, thorough preparation, good seed well sowed, cutting 

 at the right time, harrowing when weeds and grass 

 bother, all these are requisite to success with this most 

 valuable crop, and it pays for all the bother." 



Seed from Nebraska and northwestern Kansas has 

 been generally successful through Iowa and Illinois, and 

 is probably adapted to Ohio and southern Pennsylvania. 

 Utah seed produces good crops in Minnesota, the ex- 

 tremes of cold and heat in Utah having developed a strain 

 that does well in cold climates. The writer would use 

 Utah grown seed for New York, northern New Jersey 

 and northern Pennsylvania, and seed from Wyoming or 

 Montana for New England. On the sandy land of south- 

 ern New Jersey, in Delaware and Maryland, the seed 

 grown in southern Colorado and southern Kansas ought 

 to do well. 



