Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-12-05
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SoNs alfalfa.
The secret "a its great SUCCESS
would -seeun 10 - in ats root Pc e.
sraeiox power, SlsNts four "a I've
raonts IS old are koOwn 10 havg, NJ ,ts
five er six fest long, aud il th re
is SnY moisture tire rocs will pc c.
,rate the hs>vdest hardpaa,
Il is common 70 ttnd roots fran
tVs.Av~ 10 fifteen feet long ana r ..
SoNusn, in his hook Oh eliza a,
snentions place in Colon do
Naes>e am alfalfa root WAS fos nd
al a depth OF so beet.
In Montana il will grew on
,aost my Kind of soil. sandl' ie ,m
beissx the best, however. ~ y i'll
40 ~ell on gunbo, on the high ,st
beach land or the lowest bssse n.
Il will come nearer making O OPP
oia graves,v land ;han any OF 'er
plsat
1t is about the last crop 20 be
siliee by askali, and will, a. ;er
once wei, set, come nearer usak ng
a good crop without water q an
any other one | know of.
Isn the other baud il w,ll sta nd
Inore wcter and oitener in the hot
season if properly pat on aud off
than epy othsr plant.
If the, sarmer does not cate or
Ray II is a paying crop to let il SO
10 seed, There is n great DEM nd
for the seed. You can cut as nm CHI
hav from one osop OF alfalfa as
from any other hav and still r. Use
"a crop of seed that is as vsluiabit us
the average crop.
1t viii produce from three to
seven tons per acre,
1t win produce from five TO IL
teen bushels seed to the acre,
1t IA the nearest balanced rat on
Of any crop grown.
II has more proseip than wh sat
Darn,
Ii will come nearer crowding nut
all iaul weeds and grasses q an
any other plant, Three HIND ed
and sixty stalks have been gro vn
from one seed Unlike m ost
other pisris IL does not eShs ist
the soil, ort enriohes it; so IN CHI
so that gram yields nearly don pie
where alfalfa is plowed az, In
Greedy settle nent in Colorado Trey
are now blowing up alfalfa for
winter wheat ana sugar heels sand
yields fully double that 90 oil
where alfalfa has not been son IN.
The digestiSiiity OF alfalfa is
changed less by the process o ar
ing than that OF any other for &C
plant. CRY alfalfa in the $, mn yer
IL a@ ps,atable ~ the dairy GOV as
green peas. u contains arg ely
suoaslsnt quantities OF green gi ass
in June, keeping the dies I've
oigans open aud autiSe and u has
q cooling effect on the blood 81
Fed TO dairy, cows sIfalfa nns n
fains the How of milk equal @ ] me
grass Tor nearly a whole YEAR. II
con be choppes as fiae as WI eat
bran and mixed with corn meal &c
form a balanced ration.
Such ID mixture is worth orc
pound for pound than the org IA
oornmeai.
Where alfalfa is grown 70 ! err
fecsion AS conisnoa prodIct sus .
land is certainly to flow Will ilh
and honey.
]. Ia sures ior 20 white ho er,
sw Get clover or buck wheat, ine
under favorable conditionfI aviI
give honey from June to Octcoei
Feeders buying shsep TO 20 or
grain arr viking TO pey as n scf
for sisaifa FED sheep in the Y'sii W.
stone as they ore for range stea IN
st. Paul or Omaha.
They more than make Up thu
, difference in price in the grs in an'
quick setsrus on gain after b ini
fed alfalfa.