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ALFALFA EXPERIENCES Page 5 Q lit ! J TVY U ! U :SSMte5ll! V I iSv A Farm And Home Weekly for The Carolinas, Virginia, Georgia, and Florida. FOUNDED 736AT RALEIGH, N. C. .y : ' Vol. XXIX. No. 32 SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 1914 ALFALFA IN THE COTTofe BELT $1 a Year; 5c. a Copy T IS week we are giving considerable space to discussions of alfalfa, and, as the season for putting in this crop is near, we deem it appropriate here to call attention to the essentials in mak ing it a success. First of all, we advise caution. The Progressive Farmer has often used the term "growing" into the cattle business, rather than "going" into.it, and the term applies equally as wello the man who would grow alfalfa. Undoubtedly the crop is a great one, but, as yet, we cannot promise success with it in all parts of the South. For this reason the beginner, if hebe-wisepirtaTt" -wiQonGredr---so, gradually increasing" his acreage if he finds he can make a success of it. Our next admonition to the would-be alfalfa grower is to select -rich, well drained land. Land that is not full of hu mus and rich, capable of making a bale of cotton to the acre, and which is also well drained, with a water table several feet below the surface, either should be put in order or planted to some other crop. The third requisite is sufficient lime. Soils having less than one per cent of cal cium carbonate are not safe for alfalfa. Soils in the Black Belt sections of Ala bama, Mississippi and Texas, and in some parts of the Delta, usually have this amount or more; but elsewhere the deficiency must be supplied or failure is fairly cer tain. ' Then comes inoculation, the necessity for which was explained in last week's Glover -Vetch special. Unless planted where alfalfa, melilotus or bur clover has been grown, alfalfa without inocula tion is almost certain to fail. In many sections of the South attention to all these matters will probably result in success ; but, as a chain is no stronger than its weakest link, so not a single one of these essentials may be neglected with out inviting certain failure. Alfalfa is a great crop, but it is so only for the thor ough farmer oh rich land. BE SURE TO READ- Page Better Methods Prove Their Merit 10 Farm Life Schools in North Caro lina 5 How Tatnall County Does It . .10 North Carolina Farmers' Conven vention . . 15 School Taxes, Ignorance and Pov erty ; ......... 11 Typhoid Fever Prevention ... 8 wMfff' r'mf'' WWw3 I L t B ,., it-r-iiw ''--ii!! Vim i-iin( - 1 --ifi n-r ) n.-vf'f AaZarMa. ..if , .Atvt.hri.,f )ti-'-rl.iJ I ALFALFA ON SANDY LAND Farm of A. E. Gonzales, Colombia, S. C.
The Progressive Farmer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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