STANDARD SEED COMPANY :: KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI 
• do not kill 
its start 
Do not pasture your alfalfa the 
first season, and do so only lightly 
the second. Don’t let stock graze 
it down so closely as to injure 
crown or new shoots, nor turn 
stock into it when ground is wet 
or frozen. Spring sowings usually 
may be cut once with safety so 
long as the cutting can be made 
8 to 10 weeks before first frosts 
are expected. 
• fighting the 
CRAB GRASS 
If traces of crab grass are no¬ 
ticed, a cultivation after each mow¬ 
ing will help keep the grass down 
and will not injure the alfalfa in 
the least Use a spike-tooth or 
spring tooth harrow, but not a disk 
harrow. Do not cultivate at all as 
long as stand is satisfactory and 
plants are growing good. 
ALFALFA 
not suited to 
sowing in 
MIXTURES 
Because of its ability to produce 
two or more cuttings in a season, 
alfalfa is not generally well suited 
to sowing in mixtures with grasses 
and clovers. In humid districts 
where more or less difficulty is en¬ 
countered in curing alfalfa the pres¬ 
ence of some grasses may be of ap¬ 
preciable value in hastening the 
process, and, furthermore, some 
feeders prefer mixtures to alfalfa 
alone. Grasses are sometimes sown 
with alfalfa for pasturing to reduce 
the danger from bloat. Timothy is 
probably used in mixture with al¬ 
falfa more than any other grass 
because of its wide popularity. It 
INOCULATION 
Cost Is Small 
Lack of inoculation 
has caused many alfal¬ 
fa failures. The cost— 
about 10 cents per acre 
—is too small to disre¬ 
gard. Sweet Clover will 
not inoculate or pre¬ 
pare soil for alfalfa un¬ 
less the Sweet Clover 
is inoculated first. 
is used to some extent in the East 
and to a considerable extent in 
parts of the Northwest, where al¬ 
falfa is grown under irrigation. 
There are quite a number of farm¬ 
ers who make a regular practice of 
sowing a little timothy with alfalfa 
on the theory that when the alfalfa 
dies out the timothy will fill up the 
vacant spaces and check the growth 
of the weeds. Orchard grass and 
meadow fescue are better suited 
for sowing with alfalfa than is tim¬ 
othy, as they mature more nearly 
with it. 
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