. Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada. Agriculture -- Canada; Agriculture -- United States; Farm produce -- Canada; Farm produce -- United States. 456 MEDIC MEDIC MEDIC. Mcdicago species. Lcgumiiwsa:. Figs. 678, 679. The one great medic is alfalfa. This plant, once thought to be adapted only to semi-arid regions, is now grown extensively in many parts of the humid East, where it is specially valuable to dairymen. In recent years, eastern dairymen have depended on nitrogenous by-products to balance home-grown rations, whic
. Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada. Agriculture -- Canada; Agriculture -- United States; Farm produce -- Canada; Farm produce -- United States. 456 MEDIC MEDIC MEDIC. Mcdicago species. Lcgumiiwsa:. Figs. 678, 679. The one great medic is alfalfa. This plant, once thought to be adapted only to semi-arid regions, is now grown extensively in many parts of the humid East, where it is specially valuable to dairymen. In recent years, eastern dairymen have depended on nitrogenous by-products to balance home-grown rations, which consist largely of corn silage and timothy hay. .\lfalfa is adapted to saving a part of this expenditure, as is shown by the following table based on analyses and digestion experiments of American Experiment Stations: OF Hays on an Average Tonnage Per Acre. Yield per .lere Digestible nutriments per acre Digestible protein per acre Alfalfa .... Common red clover Timothy .... Tons Pounds 2,461 1,027 1,091 Pounds 506 150 62 While alfalfa hay, on account of its bulky char- acter, can only be a partial substitute for concen- trates from grains or manufactured nitrogenous bj'-products, it may also on account of its produc- tiveness, where successfully grown, be a profitable substitute for other hay crops. Since it is perennial it reduces the labor and care for a given area of land to the minimum. The medics are plants of the genus Medicago, some fifty in number, some of which are grown for forage. With the exception of alfalfa, which is Medicago saliva, the species are of very secondary agricultural value, and are practically unknown to the farming people of this coun- try. Medicago is closely allied to Trifolium (the clovers),from which it is distinguished chiefly by the twisted or coiled pods [see Fig. 274, in the Alfalfa arti- cle]. With the exception of one shrubby species, the medics are herbs, annual or perennial, mostly with clover-like habit, rather
Size: 1424px × 1754px
Photo credit: © The Book Worm / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookidcyclopediaoffarm00bailuoftbookyear1922
