. Agriculture for beginners. 289 290 AGRICULTURE FOR BEGINNERS just been grown on grass land or if it is growing wellwith the grass, there is no need to add nitrogen. If thegrass seem to lack sufficient nourishment, add phosphoricacid and potash. Grass, however, not grown in companywith clover, often needs dried blood, nitrate of soda, orsome other nitrogen-supplying agent. Of course it is. Fig. 250. A Late Fall PastureCopyright, 1902, Doubleday, Page & Co. understood that no better fertilizer can be applied tograss than barnyard manure. Alfalfa. Alfalfa is primarily a hay crop. It thrives int
. Agriculture for beginners. 289 290 AGRICULTURE FOR BEGINNERS just been grown on grass land or if it is growing wellwith the grass, there is no need to add nitrogen. If thegrass seem to lack sufficient nourishment, add phosphoricacid and potash. Grass, however, not grown in companywith clover, often needs dried blood, nitrate of soda, orsome other nitrogen-supplying agent. Of course it is. Fig. 250. A Late Fall PastureCopyright, 1902, Doubleday, Page & Co. understood that no better fertilizer can be applied tograss than barnyard manure. Alfalfa. Alfalfa is primarily a hay crop. It thrives inthe far West, in the middle West, in the North, and in theSouth. In fact, it will do well wherever the soil is rich,moist, deep, and underlaid by an open subsoil. The vastareas given to this valuable crop are yearly growing inevery section of the United States. Alfalfa, however,unlike the cowpea, does not take to poor land. For its
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