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A Nine Year Old Stand of Funks Alfalfa. Nine Years Profitable Hay and Pasture. Sow More Alfalfa for Greater Profit. 
All our Alfalfa is U.S. Govt Verified Origin 
Alfalfa Requires Careful Planning and Good Farming 
A lesson from the dry weather of the past few years is that ALFALFA, more than any other farm crop, pays 
dividends with a bountiful harvest. When grass pastures were useless; when other hay crops failed; when 
the country looked baked and desolate; that patch of ALFALFA stood out as a green square against brown 
nothingness and meant pasture for live stock or needed hay in the barn. Really it meant more, for while it 
was producing valuable forage it was laying up fertility in the soil for use of following crops. More bushels 
of corn, more bushels of oats, larger return for several years to come. 
GOOD ALFALFA NOT A MATTER OF LUCK 
Good stand of ALFALA—LUCK—not by a long shot! Success in farming in any respect is rarely a matter 
of chance. The successful farmer plans carefully, evaluates every condition, makes all needed preparation 
and leaves as little as possible to “happen so.” 
Good productive stands of ALFALFA are the result of a carefully thought out program in advance of seed¬ 
ing time and includes: 
1. SWEET SOIL — Test land to be seeded. Apply limestone to correct acidity from six months to one year before 
seeding time. ALFALFA succeeds only on sweet soil. 
2. ABUNDANCE OF PLANT FOOD — Alfalfa is a fast growing crop. You take from three to four cuttings of hay 
per year. Prepare for this in advance by applying manure or phosphate. Plant food helps to obtain and maintain 
a successful alfalfa stand. 
3. GOOD SEED —Hardy alfalfa seed shows less winter killing. That is why we feel justified in going to the expense of 
having all our ALFALFA seed verified as to origin by the United States Government. We know where the seed 
was produced and that it is hardy. Of course, it goes without saying that the seed should be of high purity, good 
germination and free from noxious weeds. 
4. INOCULATION— Alfalfa is not native to the central Corn Belt. The organisms that produce nodules on the roots 
are not naturally in our soils. If they are not added at seeding time the soil building benefits are lost, for without the 
aid of these tiny bacteria alfalfa cannot add nitrogen to the soil. In fact, alfalfa that is not properly inoculated 
has but little chance of surviving. Inoculation costs little. 
Funks Hardy Verified Origin Alfalfa Seed Gives Good Results 
KANSAS NON-IRRIGATED ORDER HARDY NORTHWESTERN 
“BEE HIVE” HARDY UTAH INOCULATION. DAKOTA 12 
A. B. LYMAN GRIMM IT PAYS. CERTIFIED GRIMM 
Alfalfa failure is often traceable to lack of inoculation. With cost of good inoculation so slight compared to seed cost, it is cer¬ 
tainly false economy not to inoculate all alfalfa sown. Also, uninoculated alfalfa is a soil robber—inoculated alfalfa a soil builder. 
Cutting Alfalfa on Funk Farms. Alfalfa is a Profitable Crop. 
