Show CROP GOOD FOR THREE YEAR YEA Alfalfa Does Not Do We Well l After Tha Thai Length of Time Time Requires Requires Much Water Alfalfa does not do well after th third year This is chiefly due to the height at which the ground water i. i kept during the spring and months Then too the soil Is lacking lack lacking ing In humus These condl conditions lons hav has led the farmers to grow alfalfa on tract for two or three years and theto theto the to turn the alfalfa under and rals rais grain sugar beets and potatoes for tor forth th next three years Under this the yields per acre on wel well manage ma age farms are aie 40 to GO 60 bushels of of wheat 75 to bushels of oats 50 to 9 bushels bushe s of barley to bushels bushel of potatoes 15 to t 20 tons of beets and 4 to 6 tons of alfalfa The land sells for to an acre Alfalfa requires more vater than most crops This Is readily accounted for by the character r of ot the plant the number of crops produced in on one season season season sea sea- son and the heavy tonnage ob obtained As a result of careless practise there Is a lack of uniformity In the quantity of water used the volumes applied frequently being far In excess of the needs of the crop The majority majori majori- ty of the records collected and published published pub pub- by the office show a yearly dut of water for alfalfa ranging from froID 2 to 45 feet In depth over oyer the while In quite a large number of c ca cathe the volumes applied would have ered the area irrigated to dept 6 to 15 feet From a large number of ot m ments made on the duty of w possible to select some tha gr great at value sl since they can be accomplished with a given quantity of water |