COMMON ALFALFA (MICHIGAN GROWN) 
STATE TESTED FOR PURITY AND GERMINATION 
IN SEALED BAGS CARRYING U. S. GOV. VERIFIED-ORIGIN TAG (See Grimm Alfalfa) 
Many believe common alfalfa as good or better than Grimm if the seed is produced in a sec¬ 
tion suitable for their use. This seed is produced under the same conditions as our clover and 
Grimm alfalfa and should be fully hardy for farmers here in the east. Any plant that could 
withstand last winter in Michigan should surely produce seed hardy for us to use here in the east* 
Our common alfalfa has about 1% of Red Clover in it. Aside from this it is about the purest 
lot of seed we have ever seen. 
PRICE 
One bu. $18.00; | bu. $9.25; | bu. $5.00. 
F. O. B. Cortland, N. Y. Bags free. Subject to prior sale. 
CLOVER AND ALFALFA 
GROWING SUGGESTIONS 
1. Use seed from a section as poor or poorer and as cold or colder than your own. Seed should 
have been grown there at least 10 years so that nature might kill off non hardy plants. 
2. Don’t smother young seedling by sowing 2^ or 3 bu. of grain per acre. 1| bu. will give a maxi¬ 
mum yield, so say our N. Y. State College. We agree. Barley is one of the best nurse crops. 
3. Test your soil and use lime if necessary. If you can’t afford a good application sow what 
your grain drill will run. About 300 lbs. of Super Phosphate usually pays. 
4. Late spring plowing usually dries out so it is hard to catch a seeding. Fall plowing is usually 
best. 
5. 2 qts. of Timothy per acre will put about 40 seeds on each sq. ft. We doubt the advisability 
of using more on ordinary conditions. A lot of Timothy chokes clover like weeds in a culti¬ 
vated. crop because it is a ranker growing plant. 
6. Here is the best rule of all: Grow 2 cultivated crops on your land before trying to seed. 
You don’t have to buy anything to follow this suggestion. Try it and be convinced. It 
applies to alfalfa as well as red clover. Seed may also be reduced | to f. Dozens of 
farmers are discovering this to be true. 
7. Top dress your new seeding with manure if possible, especially on land that has just grown a 
crop of cabbage. 
8. An old time clover seed grower from the section where our seed is produced, told us if we 
couldn’t get a stand with 6 qts. of their seed per acre, we wouldn’t if we used 6 bu. of either 
theirs or any other. 
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