The twice=a=week herald. (Amarillo, Tex.) 1887-1906, 1905-10-17

good crop nearly heavy ready for the
every expect still another crop this
So much spelling the best could that ground when
destroyed crop sage brush soap weed and grass
April 1900 sowed fifty of Johnson plains
Hartley. This farm the high plains where is
hundred and eghyhVe ieet 10 he Ist wafer stratum Inc hy
old field which had been cropped to sorghum for
four years want right here that do not mention this
sowing OF Johnson grass because am proud OF IT, is about the
mistake have made since came to the Panhandle though is
done the advice of the old inhabitants With the John
scattered about hyfve of the fifty My
object to get test of the staying qualities OF the alfalfa put in
the adverse conditions In making this experiment
building than knew that time The plants from
seed thus have proved of the most convincing endurance
They there that old field today after five of life
conditions They thrifty and vigorous
succeed we'll have only moved the field four times the FIVE
The Johnson grass has in large given place to the
and wild plants which take of old thrown out fields here but
that alfalfa shows with hardy growth. The
tend deep into the soil have taken many four feet
that alfalfa will grow and high plains lands There still
another demonstration which they afford and that the proper alfalfa
well stocked with the tuberces indicating the of the nitro
gen gathering bacteria and apparently showing that the soil has been
nocuated from probably with the dust blown
the adjacent wild grass lands from this there be
of wild egumnos plants which have bacteria of the type
that necessary the alfalfa find clover plains
That to be confined the valley creek bottoms But there
multitude of the wild egumnous plants growing our
these the type those which attach themselves
the alfalfa and which necessary its life Bear mind
within the last few years that scientists have discovered that the e
gumes formerly considered nitrogen gathering plants gather
nitrogen from the air. This gathering from the great air
attach themselves the of the plant has been demonstrated
that the bacteria of the red and white clover will attach themselves
the alfalfa those of the the those of the
bean those of the red clover Last experiments determined
beyond doubt that the bacteria found clover the
type that found alfalfa and will the alfalfa Further
searches will without doubt disclose other egumes which assisted
by the type of bacteria as alfalfa Many things indicate that
of wild egumes of the plains have this type helper
wherever this egme has gained oohod and furnishes the bacteria
the alfalfa plant nocuaon required The presence
of the bacteria the the isolated the Johnson grass
field would seem to point to that conclusion.
have examined the of alfalfa plants the field belonging
that has been nocaed and found
present have examined the roots of few isolated plants which
found growing volunteers along the Worth Railway
and found the bacteria them This certain The
raise alfalfa the Panhandle soil for the needed bacteria
incubation without importing it from other states already
on his own particular soil He find proper soil somewhere h
immediate neighborhood
older alfalfa made growth last twenx inches for
the first cutting thirty inches for the second cutting and eight
inches for the third cutting Eighty inches all the
growth Think of that plant which will make growth of seven
feet stem and foliage in one season Compare this with the
growth of best native grasses Remember this not
on irrigated subrrigaed ground All the supply the
plants had was that of the seasons rainfall pleased say that
not alone the demonstration the
Panhandle dry lands There many others
from the plot on the Capitol Syndicate farm plot sowed
made thousand and thirty pounds hay per acre 1t was
cut June 4h Readers of the HERALD and many other our
the Here the experiment stage past Panhandle
farmer feel surety that he planting crop when he
the demonstration both in his interest of the
whole country Alfalfa has and become
portant factor in the development of the Panhandle.
Mr. Watson of Nebraska for long time styled alfalfa
king OF the west Starting with alfalfa irrigated lands he began
experimenting with dry land years extended his
alfalfa fields from the river valley to the upper lands
acreage of the plant by the thousands -
Now Mr. Smith of Gryson county Texas honor
Of being the alfalfa king He has extensive fields and
all located the paes and hills of Gyson county do not
eve he will hold that title long unless he the
Texas There not in Gayson county Before long
risng ranchman of the Panhandle will champion alfalfa
farm and capture the royal title for do these things OH broad
scale here where land reckond by sections instead
Now word about starting alfalfa field My experience
cma1etn
u alfalfa whenever sow as am getting any crop
care to plant intended to plant alfalfa another spring would
'egn soon put the ground shape for it. would plot of
round that fairly level which would not stand to
iood tor any considerable length of time sixty hours flooding