The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-25
AGRICULTURAL.
DlvERslFlcATloN CONTINUED.

Before closing this subject of diversl- fieation l wish to notice what several other states are doing along this line, and especially Wisconsin. Minnesota and H. 1inois are also doing. These states are following closely along the same lines as those given for Iowa. and most of these states have the same large list of diver sified farm industries. The state of Wisconsin is very remarkable on this line and furnishes q great object lesson of what can be accomplished when the people try. Wiseinsin is q great dairy state and has just Leen awarded first honors at the St. Louis Worlds fair on her dairy products. It is the dairy indus try that is making the farmers of Wis cinsn rich and the state of Minnesota is following closely after her example, and is also fast becoming one of our great dairy states
 Traveling through tlSese states l was greatly impressed with what I saw on the farms. The grass question has to precede the dairy and live stock industry. Here there are as in every state, a va riety of soils, and 10 find clovers and grasses adapted to all those soils was the problem, and the farmers were not long in solving it. Red clover and Timothy are the chief grasses, though there Is much wet land where these will not thrive. but nearly all of this wet land is well adapted for the growth of Al sike clover and red top g.fass, and we see much of the wet lands set to these grasses, which not only furnish fine grazing, but also the very best quality of hay.
 A Valuable Combination.
 boVa often cnolser o,. Vrfftau of fbe value of Alsike clover and red top grass and have advised it's use in the low wet lands of the south. l believe we have much soil that would grow this com bination to perfection. However I have not seen this tested in any of our south ern states south of Tennessee. but there it grows to perfection. and no doubt will in Alabama and other southern states. All our southern states will have to adopt live stock and the dairy industry sooner or later, and the sooner the better, and the sooner we commence a thorough line of experiments to determine what clovers and grasses will besd suit our conditions the better it will be for us.
 The growing of elovers and grasses in the south is dependent upon the elements which must first be furnished to the soil in liberal quantities. These are lime and humus. But I cannot enter into this part of the subject at this time l have be- fore covered this fully and only refer to 1t here to again remind the reader that the fault is not with the grasses and clovers so much as 1t is in the growers who do not understand how to prepare soils so as to make the growing a sue cess. This l will keep before the read CTS from time to time
 In Wisconsin ] found the finest Alsike clover I ever saw and also the greatest acreage of t. Wisconsin produces large quantity of seed of this clover, as well as seed of other clovers and grasses. and she can boast of having the largest clover seed producing county in the world.
 In speaking of the various crops as produced in Iowa | think I forgot to mention her great seed industry, Timo- thy and clover seed being produced in great quantities. Wisconsin has about the same line of c~ops as 1owa, only not so productive her soil not averaging so good as that of Iowa, and we might say the same thing regarding the states of Minnesota and Illinois. | know that Illinois does not like to be rated as sec ond to Iowa along agricultural lines, yet this ia in line as 1 sec it. 5u. be this fl may they are all great agricultural states. and 1t is because of their diver silica ton that they are such. Only few