. "Alfalfa"; a handbook for the alfalfa grower and student. Alfalfa. Winter Resistant Alfalfas There is no doubt about it—the best alfalfas for those sections where winterkilling is a problem are the variegated strains. They are the hardiest longest-lived and best all-round producing alfalfas yet discovered for the snow-bound states. There are three principal varieties or strains grown here in the United States—Grimm, Baltic and Cossack. The Grimm is by far the most widely grown of the^three and its seed can generally be purchased^at the lowest Fig. 46. Cultivated rows of Grim
. "Alfalfa"; a handbook for the alfalfa grower and student. Alfalfa. Winter Resistant Alfalfas There is no doubt about it—the best alfalfas for those sections where winterkilling is a problem are the variegated strains. They are the hardiest longest-lived and best all-round producing alfalfas yet discovered for the snow-bound states. There are three principal varieties or strains grown here in the United States—Grimm, Baltic and Cossack. The Grimm is by far the most widely grown of the^three and its seed can generally be purchased^at the lowest Fig. 46. Cultivated rows of Grimm alfalfa grown in Nebraska for seed. Thess are called variegated alfalfas because, instead of having all their blossoms purple, a considerable percentage of them have a variety of colors ranging all the way from white, light yellow and green to smoky hues of purple, brown and blue. They are hybrid alfalfas and have resulted from a natural cross between the common purple-flowered variety and the hardy but poor-producing yellow- flowered alfalfa which the scientists call Medicago falcata. Be- cause of its rather pDor yields and low spreading habit, yellow- flowered alfalfa is not and will probably never be of any commercial importance in the East or Middle West. Grimm, Baltic and Cossack—All Good The three variegated varieties, Grimm, Baltic and Cossack, are all good, and there is no data to show that for the humid areas one is better than another. For success they must be seeded with the same care and cultivated in the same way as the common strains. Where Grimm Alfalfa Started According to the records, Grimm alfalfa was introduced into Carver County, Minnesota, in 1857, by Wendelin Grimm, an im- migrant from Baden, Germany. He brought with him fifteen or twenty pounds of alfalfa seed, and sowed it in the spring of 1858. Just how well this first seeding of the "ewiger Klee"—everlasting clover—as he called it, succeeded is not definitely known, but at 55. Ple
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