Show An Open Letter Agricultural College exp experiment stat station on here we cultivate cultivate cultivate vate l lucerne cerne very extensively It not alone produces good crops as a fodder lodder plant but when after alter six or eight y years ars heavy crops it is plowed up again the soil h has IS been improved in grain production tion to a degree which in our iu judgment g ent almost amounts to a i revolution evolution hi iri th tile the sui soil I. I Soil which before being sowed to o lu lucerne luceine elUe would not produce more than fifteen to twenty bushels cf wheat per acre after after having raised h heavy avy crops of this fodder plant for six fix ix to ten len years rears will produce product from thirty to fifty per acre according acc to more or less good soil sUII cultivation and irrigation n. n The improvement made through h the cultivation of lucerne i is almost phenomenal It II would be very instructive and beneficial benJ- benJ bene beneficial tidal if the people could coul l be informed o 0 othe othe the scientific reas reasons s J for t thi 1 t improvement improve improve- ve- ve ment in the he soil by the c cultivation of lucerne for cur or a series of M years The science of nurturing the plants a as asfar asfar far as reachable by the farm farmer r in general genera generalI I believe wo would ld a key to a great greal deal of information for tl the e practical farmer and evolve an astounding abundance dance of data in organic life May I present plesent to your your- your station station the f following questions ir i r I Is the nutriment of plants n not not not-Mii tJ rn pert pue pir a a micro process 2 z Does not lucerne s seed ed the soi with nitrifying ing organisms organisms- organisms ic jv V Very CHRISTIAN A G I n. n U ta I 1 |