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TURKESTAN ALFALFA 
The seed of Turkestan Alfalfa was first secured 
from Russian Turkestan by Prof. N. E. Hansen, 
while engaged as agricultural explorer for the 
Department of Agriculture at Washington, D. C. 
The climate of Turkestan is not unlike that of 
our Interior states, being far removed from the 
ocean and surrounded by wide expanses of dry 
land. The summers are very hot and long, and 
in many places the evaporation exceeds the quan¬ 
tity of moisture that has fallen during the year. 
Cattle raising is the main industry. The flourish¬ 
ing growth of this variety of alfalfa under such 
rigorous conditions gave every reason to believe 
It would prove equally valuable in this country. 
Bxtensive trials in Western Nebraska, Mon¬ 
tana, Wyoming and the Dakotas, in which It suc¬ 
cessfully withstood a minimum temperature of 
46 degrees below zero without injury, soon proved 
Its hardiness. 
In periods of extended drouth it has been found 
to greatly outyield ordinary alfalfa. This is 
largely attributed to its longer and stronger tap 
root reaching stores of moisture beyond the depth 
of other alfalfa. 
Not only does it endure extreme drought and 
eold, but excellent crops of it have been raised 
on strongly alkaline soils. 
SWEET 
This plant from being considered a pest and 
legislated against, haa in the past few years 
come to be ranked with red clover and alfalfa 
as a food crop and soil improver. 
It will grow on any soil that will grow clover 
or alfalfa and on many soils that will grow 
neither of these. It lives but two years. The 
first season it makes a rapid growth and may 
be cut for hay or pastured in the latter part of 
the summer. The second year it will make two 
crops of hay or one of hay and a seed crop, as 
the second year it blossoms, bears seed and 
dies. 
The roots are large and fleshy and penetrate 
deeply into the soil, which on the death of 
the plant decay rapidly and furnish a large 
amount of humus. The same nitrogen gather¬ 
ing bacteria that are found on alfalfa live on 
the sweet clover roots making it as valuable 
a source of nitrogen as the former. It is in¬ 
valuable for enriching a thin sandy, hard, rocky 
or sour soil. 
It may be used freely as pasture as cattle 
do not bloat on it as when using alfalfa or 
In this way Turkestan Alfalfa permits of * 
great extension of the area heretofore devoted 
to the cultivation of Alfalfa, and this, too, in sec 
tions where climatic conditions have almost pro 
hibited the growing of leguminous forage crops 
The plants grow strong, more leafy with slen 
der and less woody stems than the common sorts 
thereby making a finer and more nutritious hay 
It is generally possible to cut one more croi. 
per season than of other sorts. 
The seed we offer is imported direct from Tur 
kestan. 
Ask for our booklet on Alfalfa and Sweet 
Clovar, giving full directions for preparing the 
soil, seeding, and handling the crop. 
CLOVER 
red clover. The hay is equal to alfalfa, espe¬ 
cially when cut before it becomes woody. 
Sow 16 to 20 lbs per acre, either fall or spring 
but preferably in the spring. 
We offer the following varieties: 
WHITE SWEET OR BOKHARA CLOVER— 
(Melilotus alba. A biennial growing 4 to I 
feel high and the variety most widely, used. 
Solid, hulled seeds. Prices subject to market 
changes: 
Write for samples and prices on large quanti¬ 
ties. 
YELLOW SWEET CLOVER—(Melilotus offi¬ 
cinalis). A biennial, sumilar to the foregoing, 
but smaller and of more trailing manner of 
growth. Claimed by many to be superior for 
pasture. 
GIANT WHITE ANNUAL or KUBAM CLOVE*. 
This is a valuable new type discovered by 1‘rof. 
Hughes of the Iowa State College. It Is Just 
like the big biennial white except that it is an 
annual and makes its entire growth and seeds 
the first season. Seed very scarce yet. 
YELLOW ANNUAL SWEET CLOVER— 
(Melilotus Indlca). 
SEE FRONT PAGES FOR PRICES 
