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open, upland is generally best for seed, as the plants 

 should grow only one to two feet high, and mine on the 

 bottom grows 2 to 3}^ after the second year. I think 

 there is no other crop here to compare with alfalfa. My 

 third year's crop cleared me over $20 per acre. I have 

 known of nine bushels of seed on one acre, and have 

 heard of 15 in this county. My bottom lands will grow 

 three good crops of hay almost without rain, and kill out 

 all the weeds. 



Prof. H, GarmaUj Botanist Kentucky experiment sta- 

 tion. — ^We have grown alfalfa on the experiment farm 

 for a good many years and have been impressed with 

 its many good qualities, although we have not found it 

 as well adapted to our soil and climate as it appears to 

 be in the western states. In our small experimental plots, 

 on good soil, it has recently done remarkably well. This 

 is partly the result of understanding it better than for- 

 merly, and partly due to the care which these plots re- 

 ceive. Last year we harvested, from some of them, hay 

 at the rate of from 6.32 to 10.03 tons per acre. The 

 same plots are yielding very well this season, but I think 

 will not produce quite as much hay as last year, though 

 they look very well at present. Farmers in this state are 

 becoming interested in alfalfa, stimulated by the reports 

 made to them at farmers' institutes, and urged by failure 

 to grow Red clover successfully in some parts of the state. 

 But thus far they have not met with uniform success. 

 Part of this is due to a lack of acquaintance with the 

 plant and part may be attributed to our climate. A few 



