Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1913-10-31

best to follow the renovator the disk with smoothing
narrow to fine the soil and form better mulch The purpose
OF TINS cultivation the plants pieces many
imagine but to the usual advantages Of cultivation
eradication of weeds the puverng ventilation the
causing more rapid development of plant food and the
serving of moisture With this viewpoint appreciate
that mere missing up of the surface of great value
l0.-Pasturing
10 secure the largest returns from pasuring alfalfa
should be allowed make good the spring before
turning the stock and should be allowed go
with little top Stock should kept off the fields during
The winter AT no time should be pastured real close The
pasture should be divided into two three parts and parts
paStured successfully This gives the alfalfa frequent oppor
"hy TO recuperate Cultivation just beneficial alfalfa
pasture to alfalfa meadow. There danger boatng
paSrmg cattle sheep alfalfa but danger great
IN the wheat belt if the stock worked gradually and
kept off of uxuriant alfalfa wet Danger is also
Ssened by giving other feed part ration
Seeding orchard grass with alfalfa helped to solve this
problem in many cases.
11-Mallng Hay
\ common rule is to cut alfalfa when oneenth in bloom
but the proper time should be some extent by
the purpose for which the hay made If for horses fat
tenng animals ii should be slightly than for
DAIRY cattle If left very long after the shoots have
ed at the crown the succeeding growth will be materially
leSsened If cut too green will lack substance and be
apt to securing boat other troubles should be
handled much the clover, curing principally
cock aiming to haul when juice be twisted from wsp
oil stems The leaves the most valuable part badly if
the
needed for curing must necessarily vary with the immediate
weather conditions.
12-Probable Yields
The college has been raising thirty to fifty acres of
alfalfa per for good many years and yield
show yields for the entire usually
three and onehaf tons In only few instances has
the yield OF considerable acreage fallen
and IN instances has reached nearly per
The second has usually been pasured yields
per annum Of cured hay would have been slightly higher
Alfalfa tracts broken for years show signs of
on except when pastured close continually when
given cultivation. One small seeded III 1902 as good
as ever The college does not aim, however establish per-
manen meadows but to grow alfalfa clover all the fields
of the state farm rotation with crops While sum-
mer following was pracced the college farm years ago.
the soil is being built up several years summer fall
lowing has been discontinued and excellent crops being
produced regularly averaging fully high good
where grain the sole and smmerfaowng practised
13.-Alfalfa Versus Glover
Clover well alfalfa grown in field quantities
the college farm for nearly twenty years following
conclusions to be justifed
Where the annual rainfall exceeds twenty inches red
clover be successfully and will yield
alfalfa without irrigation.
b. In the wheat regions with annual rainfall of
twenty to twenty-five inches the requirements noted for pre-
pairing the soil and seeding alfalfa imperative
when seeding clover but with strict adherence methods
lined excellent stand may be relied upon GER
tainty.
Alfalfa produces better crop than clover
Of seeding.
d. Alfalfa is apt than clover to produce good
ond crop during dry summers.
Alfalfa endure pasturing better than clover
f. Glover deeroraes after three four years. while
alfalfa does
G. Glover is better adapted to short rotations than alfalfa
and it is much less expensive to pillow up and eradicate
h. Alfalfa is usually better adapted to permanent semi
permanent meadows pastures
l. They may be cassed together soil mprovers and
practically equa. in feeding values.
Reports of farmers show that alfalfa being
grown small way by great many farmers in the Inland
Empire; and that it entirely past the experimental stage
the rainfall exceeds fifteen inches with several reports
of in regions of twelve inches rainfall
Estimates of yields by farmers about Pullman who
TO hundred fifty