Show POINTERS FOR DRY SEASON water consumption by alf alfalfa ita can be controlled to some extent by grating and clipping the total consumption of water by at alfalfa falfa can be controlled to a ft co considerable n sid erable extent by pasturage ur or arc frequent without serious djury to the plants according to the united states department of agriculture hul but etin no edff effect et of frequent cutting on the water waler rno of alfalfa and its dearing bearing on pasturage with witt a IL limited amount of stored moisture in the ground often the greatest amount of alfalfa can be ob wined by allowing the crop to grow when tho the water require requirement ie Is the lowest in the fall or sp spring ing P rd d by i keeping the leaf surface at a mial mum during the summer through ell clipping or pasturage the efficacy of thue thus con erving the moisture during tho the periods of drought baa has been observed many times whenever the moisture supply falls short of the amount necessary to produce nornma crops throughout the seaton summer grazing appears to afford a gimple and practical means of obtaining a return from alfalfa bommen ernae with the available moisture aad and at tho the same time reduces tb thi dan 1 jr ar r of drought injury when the mols turu turo supply is adequate for continuous crop production throughout the beason close P pasturage or clipping in a maikel reduction in the amount of alfalfa produced is to the opinion expressed in the bulletin a grazing Is practiced greater pro production dualon can be secured by inter mutant grazing that la Is by employing several fielda fields which are pastured in rotation summer pasturage withal falfa Is extensively adopted in aua aus and the combined system ni 0 hay and pasturage has found much favor in new south wal wali it it carried out in the rolling plains country on loan loani or sandy soils where there ts is no possibility of |