Show I ALFALFA Mr r Au August I IL who hAS given special pl I attention to the alfalfa H seed business ot of time the State contributes the following on thA ha Industry for the pre pres present tnt ent year rear a I A like many other In our State I Is comparatively yet et In Is its infancy notwithstanding that the pro product duct has been cultivated more mOle or leS ieee In the tho Sil States tel for the put past forty years Erly Early settlers Inform us that they procured theIr It start art of oC title this vat al clover cloer In J S from Crom CalifornIa paying I as high al as from Crom two to 10 five dot dol tars ier Hr pound for tor It it vu was In introduced b by the SPanish but this IMS does not mean that the Spanish are the origInators ot of this clover ns as we rend In hilt history or that In 9 the Ilant WI was found on t the le At II In and WI was Lucerne wal was highly vii I ac I a b bee tod food The Tue beautiful city of oC antI ne Lake at time ble base ot of the mountains de derive rive nyc their names from rota timis Plant and I a great reat mAny people In this country therefore insist t In calling It lucern Since the cultivation of this clover cover Utah hu has done considerable business In this Utah mah alfalfa seed l is recognized as 1 a superior article France and England are il al i wy ways willing to lo py pay a slight premium for tor seed Cf t produced In this State But we must mut bear In mind that Colorado Ion mind Nebraska a as well al as Cal Call tornia CorniA have hae become strong com competitor to In recent years tar Utah produced arid nd marketed this year tar fifty cars of oC at an average of oC S B cents liI var being 10 2000 pr per Cr car or for the crop I It Is safe ae to estimate thAt 20 orth ot otI seed I is sti still carried b by the dealers and nd home farmers planting wl will moty most b be u used for tor As 1 to 10 the plait 11 itself lf there II is no other clover capable ot of so 0 dry weather and that wl will flourish and keep green long and pro protracted protracted ni as the alfalfa The roots go down vcr very dr In suitable 11 colt being from Crom six to twenty feet feet It II is ot of superIor value hl hay anti pasture Al as asIt It three or more mor cuttings ier year ear Several months ago while was going through western Nebraska where all the crops were sere burnt UJ up farmers could be peen een cutting their green fields of alfalfa The Th contrast was wall not only pleasing to 10 the tho eye ee hut but must have bave ien iena n a source of Ir great at comfort to the tArm arm armera era rs In thAt section to know that theIr only friend alala alfalfa wi wilt Itay stay b by them and produce a crop when everything else fails I 1 would not be exaggeratIng Ing I If we said It makes the deserts of the western plains plAin bloom A as the rO rose ThA That I on dry bUNn barren sandy soils 11 where other Plants wil will not Iv live the AlfI alfalfa sprouts prouts sends Its rot dep moisture and nourishment and to 10 ant and behold the barren waste h has been reo to claimed the sand has hall bome become rich and able to yield bountifully A Abundant i II are found on every overy sandy landy ll soIl where tried Evidences of oC the tha pro profitableness 11 of alfalfa on lands In the semIarid regIons region multiply from Crom to year ear I |