The book of alfalfa; history, cultivation and meritsIts uses as a forage and fertilizer . lmost all soil conditions (save two), butomitting these the seeding, including the tilth of theground, is based, so far as any future success is con-cerned, on perfect cultivation. The dictum, Alfalfamust have a dry, warm, sandy loam, very rich hasbecome obsolete, as already pointed out. There are just two soil conditions that seem absolutelyagainst the growth of alfalfa. The first is a soil con-stantly wet. The common remark, Alfalfa will notstand wet feet, seems to be the expression of a does not
The book of alfalfa; history, cultivation and meritsIts uses as a forage and fertilizer . lmost all soil conditions (save two), butomitting these the seeding, including the tilth of theground, is based, so far as any future success is con-cerned, on perfect cultivation. The dictum, Alfalfamust have a dry, warm, sandy loam, very rich hasbecome obsolete, as already pointed out. There are just two soil conditions that seem absolutelyagainst the growth of alfalfa. The first is a soil con-stantly wet. The common remark, Alfalfa will notstand wet feet, seems to be the expression of a does not do well where the water is nearer to the sur-face than six feet, or where in winter water will standon the ground for over forty-eight hours. This invaria-bly smothers the plants; in fact it usually kills any water flows over the field for some such time, due toa freshet, the alfalfa is often found uninjured if toomuch soil has not been deposited on and around theplants. Even in such instances fields have been saved bya disking once or twice, but it is wholly unwise to sow on. Three General Types of Alfalfa Seed The right-hand column, kidney-shaped, a characteristic form, but not so com-mon as the type in the central column. The left-hand column approaches morenearly the rounded type of Sweet clover. Magnitication five diameters
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