Lyman Discovered Grimm 
DISCOVERY WORTH MILLIONS 
Credit for saving and producing millions 
of dollars for agriculture is given to A. B. 
Lyman, who discovered and developed 
Grimm Alfalfa. 
Lyman—once a school teacher in Carver 
County, Minnesota—first realized the value 
in this special alfalfa developed through 
many trials under the severe climatic con¬ 
ditions of Carver County. He and his father 
experimented with it and were successful in 
producing, year after year, big crops of al¬ 
falfa under rigorous climatic conditions, 
where previously all other alfalfas had froz¬ 
en out. 
Lyman Begins Valuable Work 
Lyman knew that his seed had survived 
its long, hard test and that farmers nearby 
were raising the much desired alfalfa crop. 
Knowing what it would mean to all colder 
states, Lyman, in about 1900, went to Prof. 
Willet M. Hayes, then of the Minnesota Ex¬ 
perimental Station and later Assistant Sec¬ 
retary of Agriculture of the United States, 
and told him this remarkable story of an 
alfalfa that did not winter kill. The story 
seemed too good to be true. Hayes', anxious 
and hopeful, went with Lyman and began in¬ 
vestigations that resulted in the government 
declaring GRIMM ALFALFA to be among 
the hardiest cultivated plants grown. 
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