. Soils and plant life as related to agriculture . Agriculture; Soils; Plants. CLOVERS AND OTHER LEGUMES 247 roots penetrate so deeply into the earth, alfalfa will be found growing not alone on the irrigated land, but on land on which no water is placed and where the rainfall is even as low as eighteen inches a year. Indeed, it is in regions of scant rainfall, that it produces its best seed, though the hay crop is light. As we move northward, we find still the wonderful fields of alfalfa. Colorado fields are far-famed, more than one half of the area in hay in that state being in alfalfa. A sma
. Soils and plant life as related to agriculture . Agriculture; Soils; Plants. CLOVERS AND OTHER LEGUMES 247 roots penetrate so deeply into the earth, alfalfa will be found growing not alone on the irrigated land, but on land on which no water is placed and where the rainfall is even as low as eighteen inches a year. Indeed, it is in regions of scant rainfall, that it produces its best seed, though the hay crop is light. As we move northward, we find still the wonderful fields of alfalfa. Colorado fields are far-famed, more than one half of the area in hay in that state being in alfalfa. A smaller amount of the crop will be found in Wyoming, and even less in Montana, for alfalfa is naturally adapted to a warm, dry climate. In the northward movement of our line of young investigators, none will encounter more of this splendid crop than those who pass through Kansas and Nebraska. Here whole valleys, as the Arkansas, the Kaw, the Solomon, the Little Beaver and the Platte are given over largely to the production of alfalfa hay and seed. That part of our line eastward from the Missouri River will fijid that in the Carolinas and Virgihia, in Pennsylvania and New York, some alfalfa is grown and successfully; that in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Iowa the cultivation of this crop is rapidly increasing as its needs become better known to the farmers; and that even in Minnesota and the Dakotas, a hardy variety, known as the Grimm alfalfa, is being extensively Fig. Counesy Iowa Slate College. â A red clover Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Cunningham, Jules Cool, 1879-; Lancelot, William Henry, 1874-. New York : Macmillan
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