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Show Alfalfa. Mr. John Cunningtoi: showed us, yesterday, a bunch of this very prolific pro-lific clover that he hud taken from his grounds in the Seventh Ward, which was only two years old, and had a root four feet nine inches long. It is very commonly thought here that Alfalfa apd Lucerne are the same tiling; but this is an error. A hundred hun-dred and fifty pounds of tjie seed of the Alfalfa was brought from California Califor-nia by Mr. Sharp S. Walker, two years ago, and distributed among his friends, who can now say nothing too favorable of the Alfalfa as a rich and nutritious aliment for cattle especially especi-ally for cows. It can be sown on tho barren soil of any portion of this valley and will ho productive without-much without-much attention, and yields two crops a year; with good attention It would yield three crops. It is worth cultivating culti-vating everywhere. |