Show 1 ar f I 1 44 r 1 I t 4 i 1 I rp EE E E success with alfalfa freyl previous on to live years ago most of 0 the attempts to grow alfalfa airala la illinois nois and neighboring states had bad resulted in failures but since that time there have been many successes and these successes have led many farmers armors to embark quite hea heavily fly in tho the growing of 0 alfalfa to a large extent perhaps the successful grow grom ins ini ot of ibis depends on the proper inoculation ot of the tha soil eoll with the bacteria that makes the tha nodule in which Is gathered the nitrogen from the mir air to be changed into a torn form that can later be used by the rootlets rootless root lets ot of the plants lor for lood food the sending out by the illinois esperi experiment peri ment station ol of large quantities of inoculated soil has been a step lu in advance and has commenced the inoculation cu ot of the soil in many widely separated sections in the meantime the tha apparent fact that the bacteria that works on sweet clover is tho the same that works on alfalfa as another sign pointing to the successful growing of 0 alfalfa in states where it has been little grown in the past there are many sections of 0 illinois and michigan where tho the writer has seen sweet clover growing in abundance and it la Is very likely that alfalfa on such lands will prove successful cess ful perhaps one reason why at ah falfa has baa not in the past done well on such lands landa Is 3 that the bacteria on the sweet clover did not come into contact with the roots of the alfalfa sweet clover does not in the main grow in cultivated fields but by the hard roadside in tact fact it la is averse to cultivation we would suggest to our reader that those living in a region where sweet clover grows thickly by the roads de should sow so some me alfalfa in a cultivated held field and carry some soil boll from the roadside where the sweet clover grows tor for inoculation cu and at the same time plant a patch of 0 alfalfa in a place distant from the places where the sweet clover and other alfalfa are growing but on the same kind of soil coll this latter will be a check plot by which the success of the other treatment can lie ie judged A tew few cases of this kind will prove of little value but there should be leveral hundreds of 0 farmers that are in a position to make this experiment this spring the results may be tar far reaching for or it 11 a way la is found to grow erow alfalfa successfully in the counties where it Is not now grown it mill add immensely to the profits ot of the larma farms la in such localities |