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PROGRESSIVE FAUMER AXD GAZETTE.
ALL AROUND THE FARM;
HOW ALFALFA BUILDS UP THE 10 acres as they would on the whole
SOIL. - 30 acres wlthouthe" two fears' of
. . clover. : In place of working 30
An Increase of 60 Per Cent in Corn acres each year they had only 20 to
and Cotton After Two Years of go over, so could farm It better. The
Alfalfa Legumes Necessary to red clover was sown in the fall on
Maintain Soil Fertility.
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Messrs. Editors: Everywhere over
l our country one sees lands that are
washed, gullied, "laying out," or
producing unprofitable crops. They
are examples of repetition of agri
cultural history the world over,
the corn lands.
On our plantation fall oats sown
on land two years in alfalfa pro
duced 54 bushels per acre. In the
same field on the same kind of land,
except it had been in cotton, oats
yielded only 25 bushels per acre
a difference of 29 bushels in favor of
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wnere a ou-cx uy " "7 71 alfalfa on land for tVo years. The
line of
nates, as here. One reads of dis
tricts In Europe which have been
farmed 800 years and are still pro-
j i L. Jl .-fc.-vs fPli AAA tm A-n Qia
w suuu.uuy. .i-u years in alfalfa, yielded 38 bushels
truly farming and not robbing the r .
second and third year the
division was readily distinguished.
Corn planted on land, -for three
per acre. Beiore tne aiiana lis max
imum yield was 25 bushels per acre.
first robbed of their uitrogen and bushels n favor of alfal.
soil inherited by them.
These lands so depleted by us are
humus pr6ducts secured from or
ganic matter. These are added by
matter, or such crops as alfalfa, clo- . . , a a
fa on the land for two years, besides
the other land by the side of this
vers, or peas; and these, when used,
properly in a crop rotation aid in
restoring the lands to their virgin
productiveness.
' Their nodules decaying leave their
deposit of nitrogen gathered from
stable manure from horses. . A dif
ference of at least 60 per cent is to
be expected as a result of increased
fertility due to alfalfa kept on land
two to four years.
t How long it is best to leave alfalfa
growing on a field to get the maxi-
tonseed meal, 300 pounds; mu
riate of potash, 50 pounds. This
much per acre.' I have made as
high as 2,400 pounds seed cot
ton per acre, but that was fifteen .
years ago, and yet I have used
more fertilizer since then and.
have kept up the threes-year ro
tation plan 'since then. I have
noticed for several years past I
have had what we call "fire" or
"rust" coming on during Au
gust, at the time when the cot
ton seemed to be doing its best
This destroys everything on the
plants except the; grown bolls.
Some parts of the field are af
fected worse than others. The
grain crops increase every year.
Sixty bushels of oats this year,
with 60 0 pounds fertilizers, and ;
only 1,700 pounds seed cotton
from 800 pounds fertilizers.
Forty bushels corn from 300
pounds fertilizers. Can you give
me any reason why this should
.be, andlsuggest a remedy? -
W. F. McL.
with your rotation t
land once in six years. After
first liming only use 20 bushels Wvl!
would be the result in tppj
lime before planting cotton Tel
not say. but- it would have a ytrl
good result on the corn, and WoS
keep the soil sweet- for years
You - do not say what fertilizer
mixture you use, but if I were rUn
nlng a. similar rotation, I would al
ways sow crimson clover after mow
ing the peas, and would have a good
crop of clover to turn for corn and
cotton, as i would sow crimson clover
among the cotton, too, about the sec
ond picking. Then I would trv t
have enough peavine ihay, fodder and
greater depths; These roots; when 0d;.." " f'?3
they die, leave vegetable matter to
decay and make humus.
Not only is actual fertility in the
way .of plant food added but the
physical " condition as well is bene
fited. The ground is more mellow
and plows easier.
Last year we noticed a field newly
sown to alfalfa, in the fall, behind a'
thin stand of peas. The alfalfa was
growing vigorously and six inches
high. By the side of . this and on
the same character of land and with
the same treatment except the one
crop of peas ; the alfalfa was two
inches high with a weak growth.
On another, farm in north central
Alabama a rotation of red clover
two years, ; then cotton, and next
corn, was followed in 10-acre fields. v
Each tenant managed 30 acres this
way. They agreed they produced as
much cotton or corn on the alloted
tion of four to six years.
Where alfalfa is not a paying crop
the clovers and peas will aid very
materially- in restoring land toward
its original production.
JESSE M. JONES.
Montgomery, Ala. "
(Answer by Prof. W. F. Massey.)
. I think that a large part of your
trouble is that you have been using
fertilizer annually on every crop, and
have gotten your land into an acid
condition. As each field comes In
corn, I would apply about 2 5 bushels
of slaked lime and harrow it in after
plowing the land, and in keeping on
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