Show 1 MO NY IN ALFALFA Quick and Certain Cash Producer With Little Expenditure I Irrigated Lands Are Naturally lly Chosen for Crop Because There It Finds Conditions Be Beet Beat t Suited to Its Liking Alfalfa is rightly looked on as a money producer that Is quick and tain tarn It can be secured with little expenditure expenditure expenditure ex ex- and only a short wait walt for returns The returns from the fields sown the past winter will come In as rapidly as any crop of cereals and one cutting follows another right along Alfalfa seems always to be a salable commodity It Is a cash crop as soon as the tho hay is in the cocks It often pays best to sell it directly from the field as there is loss in weight in stacking it and very often the stacks are damaged by rain Water is the cry of the thirsty alfalfa alfalfa alfalfa al al- al- al falfa field Water Water It pays to have water abundant and easily applied The irrigated lands are naturally chosen for alfalfa for there It finds conditions best suited to Its liking In sections of the country not under a ditch system the meadows along the rivers and brooks make the best alfalfa fields as they are usually well There is still much of this land unplanted in the state Alfalfa will grow and produce one or two cuttings with little water living but not growing long enough to cut during August and September Commercial Commercial Commercial Com Com- mercial success In alfalfa growing means that all the crops not less than six should be worth harvesting In some favored locations where heat and water abound ten yes even twelve crops are cut in a year writes M. M E. E Sherman in California Cultivator vator vator It is foolish work to plant poorly lev leveled led land to alfalfa as ten dollars a year yea spent in labor in irrigating in ina a series Ies of years counts up to more moreth morg th coo land the hors horses horse gallon gation comes before the cutting I 1 Ithe the irrigation Is light enough to avoid this trouble the hauling of the hay hayand hayand hayand and mowers running on the land might make malce It too compact Heavy soils need more careful handling than sandy loam A slight Irrigation before before before be be- fore cutting and a heavy one afterwards afterward's afterwards afterwards after- after wards ward's can be practised with success on these lighter soils In the hot weather r the levelness of the field has a controlling Influence on the success of the cr crop p for the Irrigation Irrigation irrigation tion must be quickly done to be safe The loss from scalding may be rendered absolutely nothing if the water is turned into the field at daylight dalIght and at six o'clock Is turned off This means level leyel fields that no one must watch and stand waiting for the water to run over This morning Irrigation should be only heavy enough to wet the surface down a couple of Inches I After supper time turn In a full head I of water letting It run all night givIng giving giving ing the field a good soaking Turn It off orr at six o'clock or earlier If the head of water Is large The object of this is that the first running water is put on the land In the morning while it Is cool enough to wet the surface but does not This water evaporates evaporates evaporates orates all day under the sun and at nightfall the land Is cool and ready to take the heavy Irrigation without harm resulting With plenty of ot water from the sky and plenty from the irrigation ditches the present time Is full of promise of ot abundant feed for next year Alfalfa as a farmers' farmers crop far surpasses anything anything anything any any- thing a ranch rauch can grow Grapes go up and grapes go down dow peaches one season pay the next they are fire fire- wood It runs the same In all the fruits but give alfalfa a little care and the dairy cow a little too too and remember remember remember re re- re- re member the humble despised pig and pouf pout the mortgage Is burned and the tho home homo our own I |