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

there about seventy five million pounds of nitrogen over eleven
bnaon alfalfa and its characteristic bacteria transforming
company it is ready to begin work for you you only
board itself Yes it is ready pay privilege working
for you BY drawing from the wealth nitrogen contained the air
forty fifty pounds for each alfalfa hay hundred and
fifty one hundred and pounds year. turning
over you for sustaining your horses cattle other
mails and at the time adding materially nitrogen
your soil Upon this store draw when again grain
other crops on this land should hand you check book
and place at disposal unlimited bank upon which you
were authorized to draw at the rate of ten fifteen dollars per year.
for each of land would over doing to
three tons of hay would you yourself
There little doubt but that would and lose time begin
ming the work.
Now word about the feeding value of alfalfa Experiments
conducted the Colorado stations determine the comparative yield
per acre alfalfa as compared with demonstrated that the pro-
duct for the alfalfa exceeded in dgebe
mae three times that corn In heat and fat forming elements it
was slightly esshan corn The great amount protein contained in
eastern and northeastern stock go
he deprived of his clover and timothy crops made
clover and timothy demonstrated that in the yield of dgese nu
ment alfalfa three times better than
highly recommended by the agricultural department aog grass
hay crop for the called semad lands comparative have
proven that the yield of alfalfa i'll dgestb matter
twelve times that of bronze Every animal the farm will get
your hogs poultry will eat the hay with relish thrive it,
For spring summer and fall pasture for hogs and growing nooher
am necessarily obliged this say something of my
experience with alfalfa lest you might think that large part Of
what tell based theory Some twelve years ago
began experimenting test the capacity Texas soils for growing
alfalfa without irrigation In that time have learned much the
plant and its habits by actual experience with it, Nine this
last spring cleaned and broke piece of land acres
ranch Hartley county This land valley
but is dry of subrigated 1t covered with sage
brush and weed or bear grass with fair setting of the native
grasses such land would support
Some of neghbo told when clearing off
the brush and weed that destroying the best crop the
land would produce was bit stubborn something like the
man from Missouri must about that for myself had
owed deep inches and also SUBSIDIZED During the
winter mad thoroughly dSked and narrowed
Subdue the sod much possible and puveze the soil the
spng o. May sow this piece land alfalfa succeeding
i'll getting fairly good stand but of
that though had it moved
the ground In good hay
this piece very was very dry year vet it
beat the natural of wild grass somewhat sowed
alfalfa but from the older piece harvested fifty sixty
hay besides getting good fall pasuage from it. At that time
knew nothing about the bacteria which should assist alfalfa
noticed that the alfalfa on part of my fields the lower portions
much heavier and kept growing dark
weather while that on the or higher portions the fields did
so well ana was very much lighter green Some OF was quite
yellow dry weather Each however the the higher
land better than they did the year before through
OF the Kansas and Illinois experiment stations Learned the
bacteria which the needed of thrifty growing e
gumes and of the need localities of nocuatng the soil
with bacteria infected the plants
the thrifty parts my fields and found that the bacteria
there evidenced by the tubec
An examination of the plants the portions of the field where the
pale green disclosed the that the present
proceeded to help the incubation Where bacteria
the county at that time and that irrigated field twenty
miles distant from place But last year experiments
Illinois station fully demonstrated that
eo or sweet clover the that needed tor alfalfa and
that soil from place where sweet clover grows will nocu for alfalfa
We have wild sweet clover growing the Ro Bnc Upon examining
found the
ocuaon came from the sweet clover plots But al
ala hay For the past four years put stack and fed
stock from hundred hundred and thirty of alfalfa
week ending June 24h last put up stack twelve feet wide IF
teen feet high and hundred and twenty nine feet long, fifty
the first cutting this from the thirty field
which, nine would have supported for year.
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