Show SOIL BENEFITED BY ALFALFA CROP Tree or Four Cuttinsa During Season Enriches It When a plant furnishes an abundant crop such as alfalfa with three or four cutting during a single season It Is but natural to think that It will greatly exhaust tho soil Nothing ism Is-m pro erroneous Instead of taking strength away from the sojf It puts moro Into It instead of exhausting It the fertility Is Increased The penetrating pene-trating powers of alfalfa roots are well known Tho roots are constantly growing and decaying thus adding to tho humus of tho soil Tho strongest point In favor of alfalfa as a soil 1m i prover It Its remarkable nitrogen gathering ability The roots of alfalfa al-falfa are full of tho small nitrogen tubercles which represent bottled up vitality to plant lIfo and It has been proven by frequent experiments that Increased yields were tho rule when plantings of any kind of crops had been made on ground Infected with nl trogen bacteria Under these circumstances tho I spread of Alfalfa fever Is no wonder With splendid crops of highest priced hay oh top of the ground with tho roots working as perfectly natural fertilizers fer-tilizers under tho ground farmers can do nothing better than to plant alfalfa The truth of this statement may be realized and verified If one but takes tlmo to look up statistics and reads about tho marvelous Increase In tho acreage of alfalfa In Kansas alone the acres lawn to alfalfa Increased from approximately 35000 acres In 1801 to moro than 743000 acres In 1907 It Is safo to say that since then tho acreage has increased In proportion propor-tion and other states are falling Inline In-line A Kruhm |