The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-11-27

son, but the hot wave of mid July.
1908, and the dry autumn that follow
ed greatly retarded the growth of the
alfalfa in most cases. ia
AT Larirnore last spring most of
the plants were alive, but they did not
make good growth. Early IN July
plant here and there throughout the
held was making an excellent showing.
When such plants were dug UP their
roots were covered with nodules. The
spindley weak plants had no nodules
upon them. This field was then plowed
up and disced down fine. Next year
II viii be reseeded with alfalfa. At
Lakota the alfalfa was narrowed sew
eral times early I'm the spring II
made q fine growth and yielded ap-
proximately three tons Of hay per acre.
At Bathgate. the alfalfa came through
the winter in good shape, but it made
growth very similar to the field at
Larimore.
At an average on the first of June.
a plant was inocuiAted per square yard
and was making a good growth. The
color of such plants was "a dark green
and they were 24-26 inches high, while
the surrounding plants were pale
green and but 1912 inches In height.
The alfalfa plants on this field SEEM
ed to become inoculated very rapidly
during the summer and by the first
of September this field was thoroughly
inoculated and the alfalfa was doing
exceptionally well. 1t was pastured
off all fall and went into winter crop
ped off very close to the ground.
At FVaxton the ALFALFA made a med
ium growth. II came up strong and
vigorous in the spring, but the plants
were pale green in color; and when
dug UP no nodules could be found on
the roots. This field yielded a little
over ton of excellent hay per acre
from one cutting The rainfall was
quite light at F1axton all summer and
that accounts in part for the light
yield. The results at Granville were
very similar to those obtained at Flax
ton.
At Bismarck the alfalfa got a poor
start the first year and the very dry
July, August and September weather
last year all but killed it. Last spring
it was reseeded and both the old and
new plants made good growth and
a lot Of seed was produced on this
field.
At New Salem the alfalfa did re-
markably well during the season OF
1908. In the fall it was pastured off
very close to the ground The warm
days of early April started several
shoots from each crown which were
from 2-3 inches long when zero wealth.
err set in near the, first Of May. This
AL
strip near a snow fence, which was.
covered with snow and did not get
started early. This strip made fine
growth and produced a fine. crop of
seed. The balance Of the field which
was killed out was reseeded last spring
and the young plants have made fine
growth and went into winter In good
shape. At Beach the growth last year
was all that could be desired It went
through the winter in good shape and
produced two good crops Of hay the
past season, which was little over
three tons per acre.
At Sanborn the alfalfa gave the best
results Of any of the demonstration
farm trials. At this point 1t was twen-
ty-eight inches high the first Of June.
It was cut for hay early in July and
yielded approximately two and one
half ton per acre. The second crop
was left for seed. Only the Grimm
and Montana alfalfas produced seed.
and as the first cutting had been made
a little late only about half the seed
was mature. About one and one-half
tons OF hay was taken off this field in
the second cutting.
s.. e. Kurtz, manager OF the EN-
mons county demonstration farm has
produced some very fine alfalfa seed
the past two seasons. Mr.. Kurtz mas
been very successful in growing alfal-
ia particularly as hog pasture and for
seed. Last year he secured three
bushels Of fine seed from one-half acre
Of land.
Alfalfa was seeded on several Of
the new demonstration farms estab-
lished last spring among the farms
were those located at jamestown.
washburn, Rugby and Hoople. On the
two latter farms the alfalfa made a
fine growth. Next spring these ex-
periments will be quite widely extend
ed so as TO take In the entire twenty