Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-01

buC UOl'us Sdpthtu JlSIS eamS cbRlcI
fattened herd Of beef cattle entirely on
it, two tons each, and sold ct corn fed
prices in Chicago, making leo per cent.
on his Investment. He sold fat hogs
from his slfalfa meadows st cents gross
In Denver. In California large herds of
csttle and csrloads of hogs go directly TO
market from the slfslfa. WycoH saye {:
"For mich COWS 1t is superior 10
sll other hay; it excites the secretions j"
The state board Of agriculture
OF California gives the experience of their
dalrymen: "rhst cows taken from the
nS'ive grasses aud psstured upon it will
increase In product of milk, butter and
cheese from sixty TO seventy per cent;
and that sheep growers state that their
d JCks grsZed upon il ere entirely free
from the skin diseases so prevalent in
California Mr.. Daniel Bachelor, Utica,
n Y, very high authority, says: "But,
az the bead of all leguminous plants
stands alfalfa or lu cerne, which is
destined, l believe, to greater
SUCCESS in this country thsD
red clover, especially In the hot
dry soils Of the west end southWt 81.
Notwithstanding the large amouns Of
forage it produces, the luceTIe does not
exnsust the soil but improves it, for the
leguninC fR Crgw almost their entire
nutrition from the atmosphere, and lu-
cerne produces ten times more roots than
any other clover. Vast masses Of these
roots decay in the soil every season,
thereby enrichirg the land. The plant,
700, is so dense that il shades the soil
That iucerne will flourish IN this region
Central New YORK; is proved by the
Isct that Messrs. Wa!cott and Campbell
hsve grown IL for m.ny seasons ard pre-
fer it to sEy other forage plant" Pfoies-
sor Arnoit, ID Am rican Dsiry rg, says:
ala respect to valuable properties,
lucerne is Tar ahesd oi corn, being rich
in slbuminoids.h
NV let US look to the physiologiss and
agricultural chemist. Leguminons plsnts
are beans, pe,s, lentils, etc sill kinds Of
pulse TIE heterogeneous substance, legu-
mine, found in these is vegetable caseine,
Ilks Glbumen and fbIipe. II is abundant
in m TX CeSeiDe 10 ten equivalents OF
proteine and one OF su puur. Ia the
words Of Lieb g the greatest agricul' ursl
chemist living or decd, "Dyoteine is the
com mencement and starting pni1t OF ali
the tissues" Massrs. Wolf & Kaoo give
ire relative values of slfaita and red
clover, (cut wnen in blossom), as fol-
low:
ne-Albuminoids, IA; sugar,
starch, &c, % 8; fat, 5.
R:d G over-A bumiunids, l3 4 ; starch,
sugar, etc, % 8; fat. 80
Mr. X A Willard, in DSiry Husbindry
max, So 2 pounds Of iucerne hay equal to
100 pOuuds Of hest Eoglish hay; waile,
he says it takes ~ s. pounds of rel
clover hsy 10 equal SO pounds OF lucerne
hay.
Will 1t kill stock2 Yes. So will red
aud white clover aud abund.nt grasses,
IL there is bad management when
they are first turned on them;
seDsele' management "In Kern county,
Csliiornis, one farmer keeps twenty head
Of sheep per acre the year round. An.
other near San Jose astures six cows on
three aud ons-half acres. In San Bernar-
dino valley eight cuttings are m.ie aunu-
ally. Another farmer in the same county
grazes 1900 sheep upon his alf.lfs, giving
them o1ly one acre per day, aud when
they are upon the twentieth acre the
hurdles are returned to the first acre,
where he finds the new growth eight to
ten inches high"
Will it spread? Yes, about like red
clover.
Is 1t hard to get rid of when once we'll
rootedf II thick and two years or more
growth it is tough plowing and no mis-
take. But II any one will tell me what
more profitable crop he can put on the
ground he is blowing up shall be ever
lastingly obliged, and will see that the In
formation is not hidden under q busheI,
~ TrIr GI1rTTp rciII pnhljsh II dnntf
expect to be startled by that sort OF in
formation.
10 conclusion: The writer has no "pe-
cunisry advantages" st staks-no Texas
lands for sale, nor alfalfa seed on the
market. The writer Is not personally &C.
q1ainted with any person who has alfalfa
seed to sell. Tney can be bought in
Colorado and Californis, at about the
quotation for red clover seed, sixty
pounds 20 the bushel. j. D. BURcH.
Is Aurora, Tex, II srch %, 1888.