Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 131, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1916 — POINTS IN SEEDING ALFALFA FOR STAND [ARTICLE]

POINTS IN SEEDING ALFALFA FOR STAND

Soif is Plowed in Spring or Fall and Limed if Keep Weeds Down. For the beginner seeding the alfalfa alone gives the best results. The soil is plowed in the fall or early spring and limed if necessary. Then the field is disked and harrowed often enough up to the Ist of June or July to clean the land of weeds. On average fields this weed killing process need not be continued later than the first week in June, but with a weedy soil It Is well to harrow and disk until July or August. The field is then inoculated and the alfalfa seeded at not less than 20 pounds per acre. With a favorable season one crop or two crops of hay are sometime# secured before September I, but this is entirely dependent on the rainfall and soil conditions.