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THE BOOK OF ALFALFA 



PAGE 



Seeding, Cmiinned 



Soaking soil before 73 



Seeder, Gaboon 234 



Gem 242 



Seeders, various 56 



Seeds dead 27 



Fertile few 89 



Seedsmen to blame for bad 



seed 41 



Selection of seed 27, 28 



Self sowing third crop .... 72 

 Self-binder, harvestmg with 



88 



In seed harvest 90 



Stllmg inoculated soil .... 61 



Separator, J. I. Case 237 



Separators in threshing 



seed 01 



Shed, hay 99 



Sheep, dangers to, from 



pasturing 109, 113 



Eat bindweed 219 



Fort Collins 174 



liosses from bloat 113 



Old, kept oft pasture . . . 114 

 Shepperd, Prof. J. H., re- 

 port 286 



Sifting out dodder * 42 



Silage for cows • . . 152 



Storing as .101 



Superior to hay ••...... 151 



Silo, advantages of using.. 151 



Cost of 152 



For alfalfa 101 



Siloing suggestions .••.♦♦. 102 

 Slings in stacking .,.,.... 94 



Smead, I>r, D. C, horse 

 feeding ................ 168 



Smith, Prof, C. B., report. .267 

 Smith, Prof. H. R., feed 



test 130 



Smothering under wind- 

 rows 84 



In wet land 44 



Snake River irrigation ...251 

 Soaking soil before seed- 

 ing 73 



Sod, breaking, for alfalfa. . 50 



Hard to plow * . . 195 



Soil acid, unfavorable .... 44 

 Acidity determined ..... 45 



Adobe 239 



And seeding 44 



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 Soil, Continued 

 Bur clover for inoculat- 

 ing 60 



Buying inoculated ....60, 61 

 Buying not necessary ... 61 



Buying infected 60 



Buying, ob^'ections to ... 61 

 Character affects irriga- 

 tion 77 



Conditions demanded ... 52 

 Conditions essential .... 46 



Depleted, improved 16 



Diseased, for inoculation. 62 



For alfalfa 15 



Gumbo 261 



Hardpan 36, IS 



Improved by alfalfa.. 16, 190 

 Improve-Tient due to al- 

 falfa 16 



Inoculated for sale 61 



Inoculated, quantity to 



acre 61 



Inoculation 59, 197 



Inoculation, dangers of . . Q2 

 Inoculation, meal or hay 



for 63 



Inoculation, not neces- 

 sary 63, 61 



Listed 52 



Never work wet 46 



Not exhausted by alfalfa, 



10 



Preparation 46, 296 



Preparing, Arizona, 233, 236 

 Preparing, Colorado . . . 243 

 Preparation, "Washington, 



,307 



Restrictions, obsolete ... 44 

 Robbed of lime ........ 44 



Rocky 19 



Sugar tree land 255 



Waxy, , . 52 



Wet makes failures 44 



Soiling 107, 122 



Advised in Fast .,124 



And pasturing compared, 



Nebraska ..123 



Pigs 121 



Sorghum analysis 127 



Bad to precede alfalfa .. 49 



Consumes moisture 49 



Fails to increase milk 



flow , 148 



Fed with alfalfa 125 



