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COWMAN, DURHAM, ROBBINS, INC. 
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Successful Alfalfa in 
Massachusetts 
Alfalfa growing lias proved a success 
for Massachusetts under the culture of 
E. W. Carlson, manager of a 242-acre 
dairy farm known as Abbey Lodge Farm, 
located in the Berkshire Hills, just south 
of Pittsfield, Mass. He planted his first 
seeding of this legume 13 years ago on 
a sandy side hill, dressing the land with 
2Y 2 tons of lime to the acre. Getting a 
good catch, .he increased the Alfalfa 
acreage, and regularly cut two tons of 
hay to the acre in early Summer, and 
from 1 y 2 to 1% tons later in the season. 
His two experiences with Winter-kill 
convinced him that a third late cutting 
exposes Alfalfa crowns to a series of 
freezing and thawing that endangers the 
planting, a point made in most bulletins 
on Alfalfa growing in such regions. 
One Alfalfa field that had been growing 
for seven years was turned under for 
corn. By way of experiment a small 
knoll in the field was cut away to a depth 
of nearly 8 ft.; the Alfalfa roots at that 
depth w r ere found to be still very thick. 
In his rotation of corn, either wheat, rye 
or barley for grain, and four to eight 
years of Alfalfa, depending on how long 
it holds, he gets long ears off the ex-Al- 
falfa acres, whereas he would get only 
nubbins off an ex-Timothy field. 
Going over the farm, different fields 
wei’e pointed out. “This well-drained 
fiat was in potatoes in 1921,” he related. 
In the following April, as soon as he 
could get on the land, he sowed a mix¬ 
ture of 14 lbs. of Alfalfa, four of clover 
and four of Orchard grass with barley. 
“Wheat or rye,” he stated, “are nearly as 
good as barley to plant Alfalfa w r ith.” 
In a small rolling field, he used 8 lbs. 
of Orchard grass. 10 of Alfalfa and four 
of clover. That stand does not show so 
well; there is too much Orchard grass in 
it. It was sown with oats, and because 
of their tendency to lodge. Mr. Carlson 
has decided against them as a nurse 
crop; barley is better. He recommends 
two bushels of grain seed to the acre in 
planting. Orchard grass in the mixture 
is better than Timothy if it is cut not 
later than the middle of .Tune. The Tim¬ 
othy hay is very heavy, too heavy for 
convenient handling, and it matures so 
late in the season as to allow only one 
cutting. 
“The general opinion.” continued Mr. 
Carlson, “is that Alfalfa roots‘must run 
straight down, and as deep as it did on 
that knoll that I dug out. That four- 
acre piece you see yonder has a hardpan 
base, under two or three feet of soil, but 
I have cut a full crop off it every year 
for nine years. Instead of going straight 
down, I found the roots had spread and 
ran sideways. That was a Dakota strain 
of the Grimm Alfalfa that I used there. 
“I find that this Grimm variety with 
its lower crown than the Cossack stands 
the Winters better. The Cossack seemed 
pretty susceptible as it grew here with 
its crown about two inches above the sur¬ 
face. Some of it was killed out. I can 
cut the Grimm a little later in the Fall 
and still get a covering growth that will 
protect the plant in the freezes.” 
He finds trouble seeding on a corn 
stubble land ; the stubble later gets into 
the hay. When he does plant on a corn 
piece, he plows in the Fall and sows in 
the Spring on top of the snow. He is 
planning in the future to roll such plant¬ 
ings in the Spring. 
Mr. Carlson feeds cows only 18 per 
cent protein grain ration when using Al¬ 
falfa. Otherwise he would need a 22 to 
26 per cent feed. Alfalfa saves 10 to 15 
per cent on the grain bill. The advant¬ 
age of Orchard grass in the Alfalfa 
is the sweetest of the mixture; horses 
will take it in preference to any 
other hay, and last year lie fed eight 
tons of it to 13 head. Besides feeding 
55 registered Guernseys the year round, 
last year the farm sold quite a large 
quantity of hay. His fields show a 
heavy yield for this year also. 
Mr. Carlson’s conclusion after this 
long experience on only ordinary land 
is that with adequate liming and a good 
strain of seed, most of the dairymen in 
Southern New’ England can raise this 
high feed-value roughage. j. A. c. 
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