LYMAN’S GRIMM ALFALFA. 
VALUABLE INFORMATION. 
In the face of all this endorsement, can you plant alfalfa other 
than Grimm and feel assured that you will have a field of alfalfa after 
the first hard winter? I want to impress on your mind the importance 
of getting true Grimm. If its history can not be traced to Carver 
County, Minnesota, it has no claim whatever to the name Grimm. I 
furnish each customer an AFFIDAVIT CERTIFYING THAT THE 
SEED SUPPLIED IS TRUE GRIMM. I can do this as we have 
record tracing each lot back to Grimm, whose home was but a few miles 
from ALFALFADALE FARM. 
I have not said much about method of seeding. Alfalfa can be 
seeded almost any time during the summer. It is seeded different in 
different localities. Many seed in the spring in grain and this is all 
right if the land has been well farmed. It pays to have a good firm 
seed bed and not to plant too deep. Read what you can on this point 
and then depend a good deal on your own good judgment. 
If the people could only realize what this hardy alfalfa really 
means. There need be no meat or food shortage with alfalfa on every 
farm. The dairy interest would be greatly benefited. Alfalfa and sil- 
age form almost a perfect ration for dairy cattle and one need not go 
to the mill for high-priced feed. Where true Grimm is used one can 
be certain of alfalfa hay to feed live stock even after the most severe 
winters. What does this mean these times of high priced grain? It 
means more live stock can be grown and more money can be made 
than with any other farm crop. 
This variety requires 40% less seed than other kinds because of 
its stooling habit. Its hay quality is better as it is finer stemmed and 
more leafy. It will produce the maximum quantity of the very best 
quality. I dare say that we can grow more grain and corn than we 
are now doing with the alfalfa thrown in for extra measure because of 
added soil fertility. It adds nitrogen to the soil, the one thing that 
growing crops need. I know of no other farm crop that will enrich 
the land like alfalfa. This added fertility would be brought about by 
feeding the alfalfa on the farm and later after it is used in rotation. 
.\s early as 1906 one of the Alfalfa Experts from Washington, D. C., 
stated that what we had done by bringing out this alfalfa would in 
time add a Billion Dollars to the Agricultural interests of the country. 
This will actually be true in a few years. 
It does not pay to go to all the trouble in getting alfalfa started 
and plant common alfalfa and have it kill later when with the same 
labor one can plant a hardy variety and succeed. Mill feed is very 
high if not prohibitive. With a good supply of alfalfa hay and silage 
one does not have to buy grain. 
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