. Farming with alfalfa bacteria culture. uding burned, hydrated and raw ground are still using some of the ground rock on some ofour fields and consider it more valuable than any otherkind of lime. It is also used in our stables and helps tokeep them in much better condition because it holdsdown small particles of dust and dirt that circulatein the air. After the stables have been cleaned a liberalquantity of lime is placed on the floor and swept intoevery crack and crevice so that everything is completelycovered. 22 FARMING TESTING SOIL. It is a good plan to take soil from several fie
. Farming with alfalfa bacteria culture. uding burned, hydrated and raw ground are still using some of the ground rock on some ofour fields and consider it more valuable than any otherkind of lime. It is also used in our stables and helps tokeep them in much better condition because it holdsdown small particles of dust and dirt that circulatein the air. After the stables have been cleaned a liberalquantity of lime is placed on the floor and swept intoevery crack and crevice so that everything is completelycovered. 22 FARMING TESTING SOIL. It is a good plan to take soil from several fields andfill small flower pots with it. Five or six small pots ofsoil from each field can be used to advantage in mak-ing tests each one being numbered or marked in a wayto tell the field from which the soil was taken and alsoto distinguish one test from another. Each one of thesamples should be given a little different treatment, oneof them can be used just as the soil is taken from theground without anything being added, another with a. This illustration shows four three-inch jars where a test was made, using soil from a field too poor and hard to grow alfalfa successfully without special treatment. No. 5 was filled with soil just as taken from the field. No. 6 had an application of inoculated soil. No. 7 had the inoculated soil and raw ground lime rock, and No. 8 had the alfalfa bacteria culture. The seeds were all planted the same day. The illustration plainly shows the advantage of using the bacteria culture. little inoculated dirt and others with lime, humus anddifferent kinds of fertilizer that is produced on the farmand available for use. When three inch pots are useda half teaspoon of the different things is sufficient tomake a good test. After the material and soil isthoroughly mixed plant a half dozen seed in each of the FARMING 23 samples just a little below the surface, keep the soilmoistened but not too wet. In this way one can easilytell the fields best adapted to
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