REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF 
BACTERIOLOGY. 
ProOGCUMATION AND, LIME AS FACTORS IN 
GROWING ALFALFA.* 
H. A. HARDING anp J. K. WILSON. 
SUMMARY. 
1. The results from more than 100 cooperative experiments 
in growing alfalfa, located in over one-half of the counties of 
the State, indicate that where neither lime nor inoculation: is 
applied the chance of a successful crop is not more than 20 per 
ct., or one chance in five. 
2. Where lime is added to the land at the rate of 1,500 lbs. 
per acre the chance of success is raised to 40 per ct., or two 
out of five. 
3. Where inoculating soil is applied alone, at the rate of: 
200 to 300 lbs. per acre, the chance of success is raised to about 
60 per ct., or about three chances out of five. 
_ 4. Where both lime and inoculation are applied as above indi- 
cated the chance of a successful crop is raised to about four 
out of five. | 
5. Each farmer intending to try the growing of alfalfa should 
restrict his seeding to a single acre and so arrange that acre as 
to determine what line of treatment is required by his field.| 

*A reprint of Bulletin No. 313. 
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