LYMAN’S GRIMM ALFALFA. 
SEED GROWING. 
The Grimm variety is a heavy seed producer. During the dry seasons 
profitable crops can be threshed in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and as far east as 
New York. It will seed best where the land is not too rich and the season is 
reasonably dry. 
Some of my customers in the Dakotas and Montana have threshed and sold 
over $200 worth of Grimm seed per acre. One of my customers has grown and 
sold over $40,000 of Lyman’s Grimm alfalfa seed from a $40 investment made 
in 1911. 
LIMING. 
Western land like the Dakotas, Montana, or Nebraska, as a rule does not 
need liming. This is also true of the larger part of Minnesota. Some soils are 
acid. Soil can be tested by your Experiment Station, or you can make your 
THE GRIMM IX CO.MP.iKISOX WITH OKDIX.VKY AEr.VEFA. 
TI 1 I.S photograph was ftirni.shoa by Prof. Philo K, Bllnn. Alfalfa Specialist of the 
Experiment .Station at Fort Collins, Colorado. Professor Illinn writes that they are 
typicai plants from their nursery [dots, plants grown singly 20 by 20 inches, also that 
the one plant is 10 inches across the crown and calls attention to the low growing an<l 
underground stooling habit. This is the Grimm Alfalfa, the smaller plant is of the same 
age grown under the same conditions and is tyidcal of the common alfalfa. The 
Colorado Agricultural College has labeled the one “The Root of Prosperity.” 
own test by using litmus paper which can be procured at any drug store. By 
placing paper in the soil it will turn a reddish color if soil is acid. Alfalfa will 
often do well even when the litmus paper shows that the soil is acid. Failures 
often due to lack of hardiness of variety are attributed to acidity. No doubt 
but that some soils need liming. Ground limestone is manufactured in many 
places in the United States and it can be bought reasonably where manufac- 
tured. It should be supplied at the rate of two tons per acre. 
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