The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1913-09-12

iarly Kansas. Nebraska, Colorado.
California and Utah-the great alfalfa
states. We have reached the point
where we know we can grow alfalfa
in the corn belt. and 1t Is now UP TO
Us to grow It
Where Alfalfa Is Grown.
The accompanying map shows where
alfalfa is grown in the United States
today. At the present time all the
alfalfa grown in the United States Is
less than the area of the little state
of New Jersey. The total area under
alfalfa In this country is 4.707 1876
acres. or this area Kansas alone has
956,962 acres OF alfalfa-or about one
fifth Of our entire alfalfa crop.
Nebraska comes second with $685.
282 acres; Colorado third, with 50S,S92
acres; California fourth, with 4S4. 4.134
acres; and Idaho fifth, with 30S,S92
acres.
All OF the corn belt states are lam
entably shy In the growing of alfalfa,
as Is shown by the following rank in
which they come as producers OF the
crop:
Missouri. IT; Ohio. 10: Iowa. 20; I'LL
nois %; Wisconsin, %; Indiana, "a;
Michigan. 20: Minnesota, 35.
With the unquestloned advantages
Of alfalfa. we should be growing more
of this great legume crop.
Advantages Of Alfalfa.
AS to the advantage of growing al.
falfa In the corn belt, Prof p. G.
Holden says:
"It produces a large yield per acre
more than double that Of clover.
1T Is rich In protein, having almost
as high feeding value as bran.
ut is the most enriching crop foi
the ground which we have.
when a good stand Is once secured
II will generally last four to six years
in the humid regions and much longer
In the west
ut can be fed as hay to all kinds oi
animals. and has no superior as hos
pasture"
Builds Up Agriculture.
mo one more literally abets the
growth OF two blades OF grass where
one grew before than he who effect
lively urges the cultivation OF alfalfs
Grow Alfalfa.
An acre of alfalfa yields 5.2S,
pounds of digestible matter; red clio
yer. 5000 pounds; and corn, 2.80
pounds.
In every dollars worth of alfalf,
there are thirteen pounds OF protein
, In every dollars worth OF corn ther
. are only eight pounds OF protein. Tn
great value OF alfalfa as feed stuff 4
, therefore apparent.
, Alfalfa enriches the soil-grain I'm
!. poverishes the soil.
There remains little moro TO be said
Every farmer who reads this shoul
begin Immediately TO make prepare
: tions for putting In a piece OF alfalfa
even though II be only one acre.
you can grow an acre next year yo
can grow ten acres the following yea
and then twenty, forty. and eve
. one hundred II your farm is bi
/, enough to make SO large a field pra,
. ticable.
Ten acres Of alfalfa on every farr
In the United States would give us l
. round numbers $4,000, 900 acres of a
: falfa. Before the next decade has gon
into history we would be CROWN
100000 acres OF alfalfa in the Uni
ed States. II We do this we will b
infinitely better of than We are toda
our fields will be vastly more fertil
and our crop yields will be bigger an
better-our herds will be larger an
. the quality OF butter Fat will be grea
iy increased-we will have happie
sc.-.~---S 49, E1l ha hetter citizens
n upon those who are strangers to
and no one Is more truly working fo
J. the benefit OF agriculture, the basis {
all prosperity, than he who proclaim
its excellence as the foremost forage
Ex-Governor Hoard.
4. Baccarat, France, has the homo
it Of producing the first glass that
,. unbreakable. The new process h,
: : been successfully applied TO the NAL
ufacture of lamp chimneys for III
in coal mines containing much fl
damp. The glass makers Of Bacc
re rat have also succeeded in increa
,f ing the elasticity of the glass. TIL
II they accomplish by adding magn
70 sia and oxide to the ordinary cry
BAL glasA-Success Magazine.