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IT PAYS TO INOCULATE 
4 Reasons 
Why You Should Use 
Dickinson’s BACTERIA 
1 Insures Better Stands. The legume crops require 
plenty of nitrogen in their early growth. Inocula¬ 
tion makes an ample supply available. 
2 Insures Bigger Crops. Inoculation by increasing 
available plant food promotes the most vigorous 
growth and produces bigger crops. 
3 Increases Value of Crop for Feeding. By feeding 
nitrogen to plants, their protein content and, hence, 
their feed value, is greatly increased. 
4 Adds Fertility to Soil. Inoculation provides plenty 
of nitrogen for the crop and, when it is turned un¬ 
der, adds to the soil an average of 100 lbs. of nitro¬ 
gen per acre. 
Much money has been wasted in the purchase of seed because 
the land upon which it was seeded did not have the proper 
inoculation. It is a serious mistake for any farmer to go to the 
expense of buying seed and preparing the soil, and then fail to 
provide the proper inoculation. 
Seed planted on soils that have grown legumes successfully 
within recent years, does not need to be inoculated, but very 
often it is sown upon soil that hasn’t grown legumes for years, 
or perhaps never. The cost of inoculating seed is so small that 
no one is justified in trusting to luck and assuming that the soil 
contains the proper bacteria for growing alfalfa. 
If the soil is very rich in nitrogen, the crop will do well for a 
while, but sooner or later it will begin to turn yellow, which indi¬ 
cates a shortage of nitrogen. Therefore it winterkills easily and 
instead of being a co-operator is a parasite living on the richness 
of the land. To go to the expense of preparing a field, perhaps 
liming it in order to make it sweet that the nitrogen-gathering 
germs can live, purchasing seed, and then failing to make sure 
that the soil contains the nitrogen-gathering bacteria, exhibits 
a lack of business judgment. 
The commercial products are the easiest, cheapest, and best 
way to provide this inoculation. 
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