. 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. Fig. 281. stacking alfalfa in the West with the alfalfa-stacker. ing effect as fertilizer and renovator, it is rated as by far the most desirable forage plant in cultiva- tion. In California and elsewhere it has produced in a season, under the most favorable conditions, when irrigated, six to nine cuttings, and in Okla- homa, without irrigation, has yielded nine cuttings, avera
. 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. Fig. 281. stacking alfalfa in the West with the alfalfa-stacker. ing effect as fertilizer and renovator, it is rated as by far the most desirable forage plant in cultiva- tion. In California and elsewhere it has produced in a season, under the most favorable conditions, when irrigated, six to nine cuttings, and in Okla- homa, without irrigation, has yielded nine cuttings, averaging one and one-half tons per acre of cured hay. The hay is a large factor in live-stock-rais- ing, and it is coming to be shipped extensively in bales to distant markets, even so __.^'^'â= remote as Hawaii, Alaska, and vari- ous transoceanic points. Mills are established in vari- ous parts of the country for grind- ing the hay into meal, which is eco- nomically trans- ported and affords convenient mate- rial, used with most â wholesome results, for balancing prop- erly the rations of milch cows, horses and poultry. In Fig. 280 Stacking alfalfa in the West by the derrick stacker. on them has converted lands before regarded as practically worthless into highly profitable invest- ments. The method of seeding found most satisfactory is with horse-drills, which deposit the seed at a depth of an inch or less, in rows six to eight inches apart, fifteen to twenty pounds per acre, on land in fine tilth, harrowed smooth, and somewhat compacted rather than light and po- rous. By some growers, half of the seed is drilled in one direction and the other half crosswise of this, to facili- tate its more equable distri- bution. Other growers sow the seed broadcast from machine. Sowing in August either the hand or is more popular than spring seeding, and without a nurse crop. A disk-harrow, which stirs the soil surface, destroys weeds, and splits and spreads the root crowns, causing an incre
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