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The book of alfalfa; history, cultivation and meritsIts uses as a forage and fertilizer . Alfalfa One Year Old Showing Effects of Inoculation Plants on the left inoculated with nitro-culture, those on the rightnot inoculated 1h . > I- .1. A Good Type of a Four-year-old Alfalfa Plant grown on Kansas upland. Height. May 2S, 36 inches. The crown shows theeffect of splitting with a disk harrow CHAPTER XV. Alfalfa and Sheep-Raising The day is not far distant when the free range willbe practically eliminated from the stockmans assets. Hisstock must be reared on cultivated crops instead of bygrazi
The book of alfalfa; history, cultivation and meritsIts uses as a forage and fertilizer . Alfalfa One Year Old Showing Effects of Inoculation Plants on the left inoculated with nitro-culture, those on the rightnot inoculated 1h . > I- .1. A Good Type of a Four-year-old Alfalfa Plant grown on Kansas upland. Height. May 2S, 36 inches. The crown shows theeffect of splitting with a disk harrow CHAPTER XV. Alfalfa and Sheep-Raising The day is not far distant when the free range willbe practically eliminated from the stockmans assets. Hisstock must be reared on cultivated crops instead of bygrazing on grasses that cost nothing. Pound for poundalfalfa is more fattening for young lambs or old sheepthan clover. Lambs soiled on alfalfa cut daily make aphenomenal growth and are as a rule free from may be carried through the summer on a light feed-ing of green alfalfa and general pasture or farm grazing,and fattened in the fall on alfalfa hay and cowpeas or alittle grain, at a generous profit. Thousands of sheep and lambs are every year broughtfrom Colorado and Montana to western Kansas and Ne-braska and fattened for market on alfalfa hay and grain,making for these commodities a convenient market atgood prices. HOW TO
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