LYMAN’S GRIMM ALFALFA. 
From Page 42 of the Annual Report of the Minnesota Agricultural Society 
of 1903, we copy the following: 
Prof. Hayes: This is a young man I want to make an e.xample of. When 
Mr. Lyman told me he had discovered this hardy alfalfa, I said to him, “You 
co-operate with the Experiment Station and I will co-operate with you, and 
we will give you a reputation as a seedsman.” I expect to co-operate in help- 
ing Mr. Lyman distribute this seed where it will be used for growing seed. 
We expect to distribute some of it through the Department of Agriculture 
that it may be grown in other places and the seed produced even more abun- 
dantly than in Minnesota. Ever since I saw those fields and saw the evidence 
among the Carver county farmers that this was a hardy variety it has been a 
very interesting matter. 
Prof. Spillman, Washington, D. C.: Mr. President, I am glad to see Pro- 
fessor Hayes take the stand that he does. I want to say a word about grow- 
ing alfalfa seed. I cannot help but be impressed with this paper read by Mr. 
Lyman this afternoon as of vital importance to the future of agriculture in 
the State of Minnesota and in the Dakotas. We have been searching the world 
for a variety of alfalfa that would do just what this variety does. . . . The 
value of that seed represents more than a million dollars to the State of Min- 
nesota. 
From report of Alfalfa Specialist F. Forbell of the Minnesota College of 
Agriculture, taken from Hoard’s Dairyman of September 7, 1917: 
During the summer of 1915, 168 fields were established by the writer in 
Southeastern Minnesota. On 47 of these fields Grimm was sown alongside of 
Liscomb alfalfa — a variety which has been developed in Minnesota and adver- 
tised to be quite as hardy as the Grimm. On most of the remaining fields 
South Dakota Common and Montana Common seed was sown. During the 
winter of 1915-1916 an ice sheet of from two to three inches deep covered this 
section for from four to six weeks. All of the clover, rye, most of the Lis- 
comb, and other common seed winterkilled; also much of the meadows and 
pastures. But the Grimm alfalfa came through the winter in excellent con- 
dition. 
LYMAN’S 
GRIMM 
One of the photographs from Mr. Forbell’s test plot, in which Lyman’s 
Grimm seed was used. 
