. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. ALFALFA ALFALFA 198 at least, in all parts of the United States, and is competing with red clover in certain sections of the East, especially on well-drained calcareous soils. It is the principal forage plant of the United States west of Iowa and Missouri. In 1899 the acreage in the United States was 2,094,011, and the tonnage 5,220,671. Varieties. The varieties are largely adaptive (drought-, cold-, disease- or alkali-resistant) and little struc- tural difference is to be noted between them and the ordinary variety, which includes the gre
. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. ALFALFA ALFALFA 198 at least, in all parts of the United States, and is competing with red clover in certain sections of the East, especially on well-drained calcareous soils. It is the principal forage plant of the United States west of Iowa and Missouri. In 1899 the acreage in the United States was 2,094,011, and the tonnage 5,220,671. Varieties. The varieties are largely adaptive (drought-, cold-, disease- or alkali-resistant) and little struc- tural difference is to be noted between them and the ordinary variety, which includes the great bulk of European- and American-grown seed. There is no apparent difference between the California seed intro- duced originally from Chile and the European importations into the eastern United States. Turkestan.—The orig- inal importation was secured from Turkestan by N. E. Hansen, under the auspices of the United States Depart- ment 0 f Agriculture. Seed from the drier, colder parts of Turkes-. 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 Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954, ed. New York, The Macmillan company
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