The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1928-06-07

interesting to watch results on
this during the next few years.
Mr.. Iwinski likes to use a Gull
tipacker when seeding his Alfalfa.
A good practice is to go over the
ground once with cultipacker af-
ter seeding, then leave the seeding
culeipacked in this way.
Paul Domke says Alfalfa is the
real thing for the farmer.
Mr.. Domke has seven acres of
fine Alfalfa at present. He has it
seeded on his high clay ground
just east of his house. His present
seeding was put in last year. He
will make his first hay off of it this
year. 1t was seeded with barley.
It gave him some fine sheep pas
ture last fall.
Mr.. Domke is experimenting
with mari on his farm. He has one
or two mari beds on his land. He
has hauled some mari from one of
these beds on to a small acrea of
ground in a field which will be
sowed to oats this spring. It will
be very interesting to watch the re-
suit of this experiment.
Mr.. Domke has noticed Alfalfa
that he has had in the past was a
little better on his clay ground. He
believes the reason for this is be-
cause the clay no doubt contains
more lime.
Alfalfa is a crop that likes plen-
ty of lime in the soil. If lime is
not in any soil in sufficient guam
titles, it pays to find this out and
get lime on your land.
Mr.. Domke started with Alfal-
ia by first seeding a small patch
in front of his house. This was a
wonderful stand and gave him lots
of fine hay considering the small
amount of ground in the piece.
Mr.. O. S. Cass and son, FL
bridge, now have 81 acres of fine
Alfalfa.
Mr.. Cass seeded his whole 81
acres last year. He advises
strongly against pasturing Alfal-
ia too heavy. He states he killed
some by pasturing it too heavy.
1t is best TO leave a good top
growth on Alfalfa each fall if you
want to keep your stand. Alfalfa
needs air and when covered with "a
crust of snow or ice, Alfalfa gets
air down through the standing
stalks, where there is a good
growth left each fall.
Mr.. ICass seeded his Alfalfa last
year with three different kinds of
nurse crops, oats, barley and flax.
He likes flax very much as a nurse
crop for Alfalfa. He stated that
at least it worked out fine for him
Last year. The flax is slower grow
ing and gave the Alfalfa a good
start. Alfalfa comes good with
most any kind of a nurse crop in
a favorable season, providing the
nurse crop is seeded rather light to
give the Alfalfa better chance.
Alvin Lamb, southeast of Sank
Centre has IL acres of Alfalfa on
his place. Mr.. Lamb is a booster
for Alfalfa. He has grown it for
the past four years.
Mr.. Lamb states that he has
always observed that Alfalfa does
best on ground that has plenty of
lime. If your soil does not natur-
ally have plenty OF lime in it, the
thing to do is to apply some form
of lime to your ground. Mr.. Lamb
believes applications Of some form
of lime would be a fine thing for
most any land unless it should be
unusually rich in limestone.
A. w. Cheney, northeast of Sank
Centre, has 10 acres of Alfalfa.
Mr.. Cheney has grown Alfalfa
just about continually for the past
IL years.
Mr.. Cheney says he believes po-
tato ground is best for Alfalfa as
this sort of ground is clean and
does not have to be plowei. You
can work up a fine seed bed for
Alfalfa with potato ground. Bar
ley has usually been the nurse
crop used with Alfalfa seedlings on
the Cheney farm. Mr.. Cheney
says he likes to seed a light seed
ing of barley as this comes off
early. It is important to make just
a light seeding of the nurse crop.
Ted Steines, south of Sank Cen
ire, is seeding II acres of Alfalfa
this spring.
Mr.. Steines has raised Alfalfa
for the past four years. He be-
lieves strongly in pure Grimm seed.
He threshed $50 pounds last year
of his own seed.
Mr.. Steines states that all il
takes to be successful in growing
alfalfa is just good old common
sense. Sow good seed on clean
ground, we'll prepared. Make AL,
falfa hay like any other hay. Be
sure the dew is off of the hay be.
fore putting it in the barn. Turn
the hay before making it.
Frank Peschek has Is acres Of
Alfalfa.
Mr.. Peschek believes lime would
be good thing for his Alfalfa. He
is very interested in getting cal
of limestone for a trial.
Mr.. Peschek is now clearing w
a piece Of new ground that he in
tends to seed to Alfalfa. He state!
Alfalfa always does unusually wei
on new ground. He believes thi
is due partly to there being NOR
lime in new ground.