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ticut river valley have reported success on some areas of 

 an acre or less. When we more thoroughly understand 

 the plant, and the conditions necessary for its growth, we 

 believe it can be grown upon some of our soils. 



KEW JERSEY. 



!Dr. iS. B. VoorheeSj Director New Jersey experiment 

 station, — ^The farmers of the state have manifested much 

 interest in the growing of alfalfa, and many experimental 

 plots have been seeded in the past two or three years. In 

 order to obtain accurate information as to the methods 

 employed, and the results obtained, a circular letter was 

 sent out during the past summer to 140 growers. De- 

 tailed replies were obtained from loi growers. Of these 

 there were 57 distributed over 15 counties, which showed 

 the successful establishment of the crop. The soils upon 

 which these successful crops are growing vary widely, 

 both in their physical and chemical character, ranging 

 from a light, sandy loam, with sandy subsoil, to a medium 

 heavy clay, with compact clay subsoil, which indicates 

 clearly that success does not depend so much upon the 

 character of the soil as upon the methods of seeding, fer- 

 tilization and after-treatment, though the most successful 

 stands were, as a rule, obtained upon sandy soils^ §fm^ 

 lying a reasonably open subsoil. Twentyr^^t^^i^iMftfi 

 had a more or less satisfactory t^q^mkM^^hMyWiW^W 

 absolute failures. A stud)5n^fJlft?^I)l^Bfi[fASi^!)feil^n^ 

 shows that in most im^m^iil-nfi^mtPiM^dfll^lff^fj^ 

 servation of tkirgialh^ia t^Qjiwei^li fefxii^tf^^^ 

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