The twice=a=week herald. (Amarillo, Tex.) 1887-1906, 1905-10-17
THE TWIcEAWERK HERALD. TUESDAY, OCTOBER y, 1905

plant will kill The ground should porous subso just
such as undeies most of plains lands with
or hard pan feet below suitable
field which has crop one or two wears is best as the native
should be entirely killed and the sod we'll od before the
alfalfa sown The land should be powed deep by
lowing in the pillow furrow with subsoil plow it all the better
The ground should be thoroughly narrowed with
loving directly after the plow doing the work thoroughly
puyeze all Jumps and od The narrowing has the further
settling and bpackng the soil After powed
rowed let lie until comes
c III winter when the snow is hawed of and there
frost IN the ground again harrow Keep the dust mulch that
e uher SOL Will remain moist and evaporation and the soil
rom blowing away IN the spring By following this plan would have
IN the spring most perfect seed bed The first part of May
ea the ana using only the best and freshest seed could procure
hat grown from alfalfa which had not been irrigated prefer press
- 'h SEED IS planted on land prepared as have described
ana the dri shoes are hooked they inch
@ e. the warm dy soil falling on top and the Presser wheel firm
ing IL down over the seed and grain will terminate and fifteen
having such drill the seed may be broadcast harrow run
over 1t once then urrowed with plank. If seeded in this way
VIII not all spout until after rain unless directly after
ram when the soil moist the top Should heavy beating
over with an adjustable tooth harrow with
angle that crsng may be prevented Alfalfa put
IN the ground too deep Oneha inch inch deep
enough The seed parts in the comes to the top like
AT h this plant tender 1t will not break cod up
lump OF dry soil lying on the spoung seed will prevent its coming
comes harder 1t grows very fast and the roots
Will have penetrated the ground and
attained growth OF eight ten inches the soil has been rightly
prepared The plant should clipped with mower as often as
shows bloom the first and weeds up should
of Cutting alfalfa grow larger and the root to
penetrate deeper No be expected the first year.
very favorable circumstances quite often fair crop be saved from
the last cutting is very important that alfalfa should be frequent
R the first year what the ground for from
the base of that off three stems will
pout thus charging the growth of the stimulating the
root to larger growth at the top and causing search deeper
the soil for needed plant food persistent plant seems
you might say determined to make of maured seed during
the This accomplished its work practically for the
year. year. Head this off by clipping the plant and its object not aa
seem have the effect the growth exer
else has on the muscles of an animal
The alfalfa plant will develop tap four feet in
length in the first under fair conditions by summer
treatment such have described If the plant has green
coor Du pale yeow green lack of nitrogen gathering bacteria
the probable and the soil will need be ocuated pos
sbe to do this by of nitro culture which distributed by
Agricultural Department free limited quantities. experiments
made by the agricultural stations have demonstrated that
sures way to use soil from an old alfalfa field or from sweet clover
plot One hundred and fifty to three hundred pounds dry soil taken
from such already bacteria laden plots sufficient surely noae
an acre 1t should be thiny scattered making
higher portions of the field Then harrow the ground
Here the Panhandle especially the valley of the Canadian its
tributaries these plots of wild clover be found very
detect the the bacteria Attached will
be found little tuberces nodues looking very miniature
potatoes ranging size from those visible to the naked
the size of mile seed and sometimes large small grain
These nodues the colony homes the nitrogen gathering
minute that each nodue contain thousands Millions of these
microscopic organisms. As the melous clover has the
bacteria alfalfa would nocuae land for first
where soil from old alfalfa field available might save
time in getting the plant we'll bacteria was not
already in the SOIL make this repetition order emphasize the
fact that the bacteria essential the successful growth the
and know that without their presence the plant will be pronounced
failure But to get back the plot of alfalfa would by all
avoid pastung the first spring fall and winter Spring
urng by cattle hogs hurts but ife after Old for
hay but avoid pastung horses it, they bite off the
OF the plant and this kills it. would the full hay
til after the plant two three years DID, does
ur its full development forage plant much under years
though will yield forage the second year than you
pect from ohercop After reaches maturity will with proper
continue to furnish abundant crop for from fifteen thirty
years.
would not recommend to the beginner, who familiar
with the growth the plant that he large field
farmer the Panhandle who will make the start another spring
put out small plot of only where he study the plant
forage for his cattle will start i'll his residence here
He will after date the time when he began fully appreciate
the value of these plains lands from the began the growing
alfalfa He will find that alfalfa growing will open up
profit him. He will learn i'll that school where profitable
knowledge obtanede school of experience the
forage of increasing the poductveness his lands
that with alfalfa adjunct his Kar and milo
enter the field competitor the production of beef pork
mutton and need longer defer to the called belt the finish
ing animals for market He will find that the demonstration of the
falfa growing capabilities the Panhandle soil with
every neghborhood by home seeker will demand for
surplus lands AS everything else land ultimately