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Show ENEMIES OF ALFALFA PLANT Not Worth While for Farmer to Waste Expensive Seed on Sour or Alkaline Soils. Sour soil and alkali are enemies of alfalfa. Most sour soils are sandy soils where the drainage Is too good and the lime has been leached out. They can be sweetened by adding ground limestone where this process is not too expensive and leaching lessened les-sened by incorporating plenty of humus hu-mus in the soil. This can be done by applying stable manure or plowing under un-der green manure In the form of growing grow-ing crops, etc. Alkali soils usually are badly drained and can be corrected by supplying this factor. It is not worth while to waste alfalfa seed on sour or alkaline soils. If they cannot be corrected, raise some other crop. |