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with alfalfa since 1903, and practically all have succeeded 

 in getting good fields started. Bacteria-laden soil has 

 been shipped to members of the experiment association, 

 who are making tests, with directions for scattering on 

 a small plot, in order to get the proper bacteria estab- 

 lished in the soil. The sowing of some alfalfa seed with 

 clover for the purpose of getting a few alfalfa plants 

 established as bacteria distributers has been followed with 

 good success. These lands when later sown to alfalfa 

 result in good catches. Alfalfa should be cut when one- 

 tenth is in blossom, and not later than the first week in 

 September. We look for greatly increased acreage from 

 year to year as our farmers learn the value of this great 

 forage plant, 



WYOMING. 



'Asil T. Wilson^ Fremont county. — ^For six years I 

 have been raising alfalfa on first-bench upland, a gravelly 

 loam, with a cement subsoil of a lime nature. Water is 

 found at 40 feet; moist soil is encountered at a depth of 

 12 feet from the surface, and continues until water is 

 reached A depth of one inch for seeding is best. Sow 

 in early spring. If alfalfa and timothy are sown together, 

 sow 20 pounds of the former to 6 of the latter; if alone, 

 20 pounds of alfalfa. No weeds will trouble; cut either 

 crop for "hay; the first crop for seed. Watering after the 

 last cutting will cause alfalfa to winterkill Irrigate as 

 early as possible, if dry, and whenever getting dry, also 

 about five days before cutting; the soil being moist after 

 cutting, the next crop will start up quickly. The larger 

 the quantity of water used the better, if it runs off quickly. 

 We obtain water from a stream. After the first year I cut 



