Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 283, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1914 — Illinois Farmers Humbugged With Bad Alfalfa Seed. [ARTICLE]

Illinois Farmers Humbugged With Bad Alfalfa Seed.

A large number of farmers near ML Carmel, 111., have been wanting to know what is the matter with the alfalfa sown by them this summer. While they put the ground in good condition and followed the prescribed ruliest the alfalfa in many instances has proved to. be so puny as hardly to be worth considering. Investigation has led to the discovery'that in such instances the seed sown was not the genuine American alfalfa, but the imported Turkestan variety, a large quantity of whieh has been brought into this country for the purpose of swindling the farmers. The real and spurious seed are said to look so much ajike that an expert can hardly tell them apart. > It is said that 300 or 400 acres of alfalfa vibrAt sown in that vicinity last summer, and of this a large per cent is of the worthless kind?