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The Seeding

Categories: ALFALFA

When alfalfa has become established on eastern farms, the

difficulties in making new seedings will be smaller. The experience of

growers will save from mistakes in selection of soils and preparation

of the ground, and the thorough inoculation with the right bacteria

that can come only with time will do much to insure success. The

unwisdom of making seedings in ground filled with grass and other weed

seeds will be appre
iated. It is quite probable that much successful

seeding will be made in wheat and oats, where the alfalfa is to stand

only one or two years. These practices are not for the beginner. His

land is not thoroughly supplied with bacteria, and every chance should

be given the alfalfa.



If there are no annual grasses, such as appear so freely in some

regions in mid-summer, spring seeding is excellent. A cover crop is

then desirable, and nothing is better for this purpose than barley at

the rate of 4 pecks of seed per acre. In all experimental work 25

pounds of bright, plump alfalfa seed per acre should be sown. The

seeding should be made as soon as spring comes, the barley being

drilled in, and the seed-spouts of the drill thrown forward so that the

alfalfa will fall ahead of the hoes and be covered by them.



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