Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 250, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1911 — ALFALFA NEEDS LIME. [ARTICLE]

ALFALFA NEEDS LIME.

We have found out a good many titlings about Alfalfa on our farm, dome of them may help you. No either forage crop requires so much 11 me tn tfie soil aa does Alfalfa. The y< rang plants are very tender and ai *e apt .to be killed by weeds during th elr early stages of growth. Alfalfa is often killed by overflow from •« reams—a well-drained soil ia esse nttal. Well rottqd barnyard manure la the moat satisfactory fertll1m jt aa fresh manure is liable to carry too many weeds. The time of sei 3dlng Alfalfa varies, but late aumm< >r is usually beet in the East anu Saofb, while spring ia the time in irrigated and Mml-arid sections of the West, and also in the Nortn. Bel ctxr experiment on a «mell asrea*n M. i i.