Show Young Alfalfa PIa Plants t T e Hurt by by- Nurse Crops Many a good st stand nd of spring-sown spring alfalfa is ruined Is-ruined by allowing the nurse crops of oats or barley to to-m to to mature tur foi fol grain gra t IY The y young ung a alfalfa ra Ila plants ts are Ut literally literally liter liter- r-r r ally choked ho e to death for wapl want of f water wa- wa ter sa says s 's George W. W Musgrave agi agronomist ono ono- mist at tHe New Nev Experiment station Th The ripening g grain he he- explains draws draws' an enormous JIous amount of water from from- the the- soil son thus fe feeble alfalfa famishing the young oung plants I I I Though this moisture robbe robbery robber t ts i the UH chief f objection t to 1 letting th th the nurse mature for grain it lt t is ls not the only one according to Profesor Mus- Mus grave There There is also the possibility of fatal Injury to the alfalfa through lodging of ot the he ripening fruit Successful alfalfa growers cut the grain for hay har ju Just t. t as soon oon a. a as it he heads s I out Not only may amy maya a s satisfactory quality of grain h hy y be bc s secured curd d at Ct this time but the effeCt crowding L on Ion the alfalfa seeding Is removed and and- the alfalfa Is given the opportunity to develop develop de de- de properly The rile object In Jn n planting the grain Is Is to se secure ure a successful alfalfa stand stanc one should take no chances on losing his hla Investment in Inoculation seed and labor through losing si sight ht of this fact It Is a mighty poor economy I Ito to try to use the oats or barley as a agrain grain crop cropas as well wel as a nurse cr crop crap p. p |