Show Alfalfa Is s Best Beston es esOn on Drained Soil OI Like Lik Sweet Clover Plant Thrives With Liberal Application Application Application Ap Ap- Ap- Ap of Limestone If ff you haven't nt good drainage or cannot cannot can can- not get It do not tr try to grow alfalfa The be New York State College of ot Agri Agriculture culture at Ithaca makes this statement statement statement state state- ment In pointing out that good draining Is the most Important single need for this this Important crop Alfalfa Is not so particular as to soil soli for It grows glows and thrives on such heavy ones as V Vergennes clay and such light or Cour coarse e grained ones as Coloma sand or Chenango gravel While a fair fall natural supply of ot or- or matter In iu the soil Is desirable yet yer with thorough Inoculation and a a little manure to help at the start stort alfalfa alfalfa al al- falfa falta does well wen on very sandy soils solis when other requirements are met the statement continues Limo Lima Is Required Alfalfa like sweet clover requires lime In the soil soli In tact fact It fulls falls to thrive without a liberal application of limestone unless the soil soU Is naturally well supplied with It Alfalfa requires much more lime than does re red J clover The most Important single soil soli need of ot this crop Is thoroughly good natural drainage Few soils solis are too dry for It many it-many many are too wet It ma may grow some but It cannot thrive In wet soils solis Soils like the Volusia and Canfield Canfield Canfield Can- Can field southern New ew York common upland up up- land and types and others which possess poor natural drainage are not well adapted to alfalfa production Soils Solis with good natural drainage like the Chenango Wooster and Ontario Ontario On- On tario arlo are excellent for alfalfa Some Essentials Hardy seed like Grimm thorough Inoculation abundance of lime Ihne either native or applied and thorough natural natural natural nat nat- ural drainage are essential for real success with alfalfa but the most Im Important of ot all aU Is drainage Without thorough drainage failure Is certain Red Sed clover and alsike or alsike alone on the wetter soils will be more productive productive pro pro- than alfalfa |