. Agriculture for beginners. 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. 291 292 AGRICULTURE FOR BEGINNE
. Agriculture for beginners. 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. 291 292 AGRICULTURE FOR BEGINNERS cultivation, therefore, good fertile land that is moist but not water-soaked should be selected. Good farmers are partial to alfalfa for three reasons. First, it yields a heavy crop of forage or hay. Second, being a legume, it improves the soil. Third, one seeding lasts a long permanencymay, however, bedestroyed by pas-turing or abusingthe alfalfa fields. This plant dif-fers from mostplants in one re-spect. The soil inwhich it growsmust have certainkinds of bacteriain it. These causethe growth oftubercles on theroots. However,
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