SMALL INOCULATION COST 
Lack of Inoculation has caused many alfalfa failures. The cost— 
about 10 cents per acre—is too small to disregard. Sweet Clover 
will not inoculate or prepare soil for alfalfa unless the Sweet Clover 
is inoculated first. (See page 18.) 
• curing for best 
results 
An effort should be made to get 
the hay into stack or mow with 
the largest possible proportion of 
leaves, since considerable of the 
feeding value is contained in the 
leaves. The less you handle the hay 
after it begins to dry the more it 
is worth. Rake hay before becom¬ 
ing brittle and cure in the cock 
unless weather is very uncertain, 
and do not put in barn until well 
cured. If stacked in the open, build 
stacks carefully and make as large 
as possible. 
• do not kill its start 
Do not pasture your alfalfa the 
first season, and do so only lightly 
the second. Don't let stock graze it 
down so closely as to injure crown 
or new shoots, nor turn stock into 
it when ground is wet or frozen. 
Spring sowings usually may be cut 
once with safety so long as the cut¬ 
ting can be made 8 to 10 weeks be¬ 
fore first frosts are expected. 
• fighting the 
CRAB GRASS 
A cultivation after 
each mowing will help 
keep the grass down 
and will not injure the 
alfalfa in the least. Use 
a spike-tooth or spring- 
tooth harrow, but not a 
disk harrow. Do not cul¬ 
tivate at all as long as 
stand is satisfactory 
and plants are growing 
good. 
KANSAS 
• alfalfa not suited to 
sowing in mixtures 
Because of its ability to produce 
two or more cuttings in a season, 
alfalfa is not generally well suited 
to sowing in mixtures with grasses 
and clovers. In humid districts 
where more or less difficulty is en¬ 
countered in curing alfalfa the pres¬ 
ence of some grasses may be of ap¬ 
preciable value in hastening the 
process, and, furthermore, some 
feeders prefer mixtures to alfalfa 
alone. Grasses are sometimes sown 
with alfalfa for pasturing to reduce 
the danger from bloat. Timothy is 
probably used in mixture with al¬ 
falfa more than any other grass be¬ 
cause of its wide popularity. It 
is used to some extent in the East 
and to a considerable extent in 
parts of the Northwest, where al¬ 
falfa is grown under irrigation. 
There are quite a number of farm¬ 
ers who make a regular practice of 
sowing a little timothy with alfalfa 
on the theory that when the alfalfa 
dies out the timothy will fill up the 
vacant spaces and check the growth 
of the weeds. Orchard grass and 
meadow fescue are better suited 
for sowing with alfalfa than is tim¬ 
othy, as they mature more nearly 
with it. 
I am sending you an 
order for thirteen bushels 
of Northern Kansas 
“Prime” Alfalfa. ALy 
neighbors have seen my 
good stands for the last 
three years and are sav¬ 
ing some money, too, by 
ordering from the Stand¬ 
ard Seed Company. 
ALVA JOHNSON, 
Fairmount, Ind. 
Route No. 1 
MISSOURI 
•be sure 
to see 
enclosed 
PRICE LIST 
it’s part of 
CATALOG 
CITY, 
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