The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-05-15

| am an alfalfa bouquet grown on
the Lacey & Hickey White Feather
Poultry Rance. Aug. 2S. 1912, was
just tiny little dry seed, with nc
signs of life. You could hardly see
me with the naked eye, but Lacey
Boy put me in little soft spot OF
moist earth and in few days | was
a tiny green leaf on the top and a
hair-like root on the bottom. | only
had chance to work ninety days,
but | was not a member of the union
and got in twenty-four hours day
and forgot all about Sundays. After
NINETY days came the snow, cold and
ice and my nice green leaves with
cred and turned brown; my tiny
roots curled up for a fine sleep and
after six months of snow. ice and
cold, the last of March | walked up,
rubbed my eyes and gave big
stretch and commenced to grow and
grew and grew, worked like the dick
ems and kept up night and day and
Sundays for twenty days and here
am the joy of Uncle Bill Lacey and
Maggie Hickey and the Kid, thirteen
inches high and full of life and do
ing business like the dickens at the
same old stand. Say, Buddy, amt |
"a dandy? | make. hundred blades
of grass grow where one grew before.
Come out to the L. & r. White Feath-
.er Poultry Ranch and see me and
the white boys and girls. Get your
name on the great book among the
Get There Ellis. Join the snow white
h. h.
Be blue blooded guy.
Yours lovingly with kisses,
s....... ID. ... MISS ALFALFA.
| Oliyet Grange, U. S. A. Iowa.
Dear Herald: | promised you to
write what knew about the raising
Iof alfalfa. What don't know would
make a large volume, but what
know l do know good and plenty, and
don't you forget it. | tried it five
times and the fifth had the charm.
said would grow alfalfa or bust, and
j amt busted by a long shot. Now,
brothers, don't curl up your nose and
say, bill hain't no farmer" We are
there with the goods and don't forget
it. When you take an elm club and
eat something into a fellow he
doesn't go around and forget it the
next day. That is the way we got our
knowledge of alfalfa, through the elm
club route.
Notice | use we from now on
sounds too small. Well, we tried all
sorts of maneuvers and jim-cracks,
and finally got down to plain business.
The first thing is to get good seed.
Get from western Nebraska, if pos
sible, so the professors say. The
next thing is to get bacteria, either
the prepared nitrogen or the soil from
an old alfalfa field or from a sweet
Glover patch in the highway. But you
can't monkey with our alfalfa patch
idiggin', dye hear!
Whether you get ii from the alfalfa
Ipatch or in the highway you want to
take up the roots with all the little
inodules attached sowing 1t over your
proposed alfalfa field and harrow it
in. Remember, no bacteria, no alfalfa.
| The nitrogen treatment is a little
different and costs little more and
we do not believe is as good as the
cultures from the alfalfa and sweet
Glover patches. The sweet clover was
o. X with US
| Do not plant too much. Try from
one to five acres. Our success was in
the August planting. Let the weeds
and grass get started in the spring
and pillow 1t up. Pillow up the piece
where you are going to put in alfalfa,
disc il or harrow it, and after the
weeds and grass and foxtail get start