Show ALFALFA TV we c notice that in the kearney irrl j gation congress on tuesday mr charles W irish delivered bellven ld an address on alfalfa and ana said eald that it grew best where its roots could run down from six to thirty live ave feet to water but further on belliz being questioned he admitted that he ha did not believe alfalfa would grow in the lied bed of the platte river or where water stood on top of the ground sir irr irish Is a very bright man but there here are some things about alfalfa witten ne nc does not know had frad he asked any of the farmers in utah ile he would woula have been told that th at alfalfa flourishes liest on of a sandy andy or gravelly soil where there is a perpetual sub drain that 02 on a piece of es land where the ground around below vas the surface was kept saturated by stagnant water froni from the winter the effect would be to kill 1111 the plant judge asbor ough who is remembered in this city tried the experiment ot of rals ing alfalfa in texas and was wondering ono one day why it did not succeed lie ile was asked what the ithe sub collio holl to his land was and an he said that it was clay he was asked it if that land was riot not kept wet met all mr winter Inter and then the thought instantly struck him 1 why ile ha said of course and the sour water lu in aba that soil above the clay Is what kill gilld id my alfalfa and I 1 am an old ool fool f that aba t I 1 did not think of it before ikins akInE of judge rosborough what a great pity it Is that lie he Is not here now to express ids hla opinion on whit what Is going on oil in the way of counting votes it would be a democratic I opinion from an honest democratic soulee arid and tile the small m men ell who we are running things in a highhanded high handed way here he re howg sifter after liste listening 9 to 10 him for the hie space of und and one halt half minutes would ritiro to their holes and would draw the holes lit in atler them it w wa a great loss lois to utah and the integrity ot of the democratic party the grand old mant man concluded to cil ohmen iange hla his residence from utah to where the waters are hilled with fish on 11 the coast and all ajl tle forests bests lire are all raith p with game ame 1 |