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Show CAUSE OF ALFALFA FAILURES i Expert of Wisconsin Experiment Station Sta-tion Tells Why Some Farmers Are Unsuccessful. . Wherever alfalfa is tried for the first time by farmers unacquainted with the habits and culture of this premier forage plant much grumbling and complaint is apt to be voiced because be-cause of a poor, uneven stand, weak plants or weed choked growth. The plant itself is hardly to blame if it fails to do its best under adverse conditions, yet few of use who possess unsatisfactory stand's realize this, and more likely will say in no uncertain terms that "alfalfa 'is not adapted to Wisconsin conditions." - 1 ?n reasons are given in a letter wl'ifci j. F- Oraber, secretary of the aUalfa d'er of the Wisconsin State Experiment ,isoclation, is sending to farmers who jvaye sown alfalfa this year. In brief reasons are: 1, sour land; 2, Veds; 3, lack of inoculation; 4, flat autf poorly drained land; o, wrong time oi sowing; 6, poorly prepared seed bed; 'J, inn heavy nurse crop; 8, cutting too lattf In the fall; 9, late pasturing; 10, low soiJ fertility. fer-tility. With each letter Mr. Graber has inclosed a piece of blue litmus paper with which tests for soil acidity may be made. For particulars in regard to this method of testing and the amount and kind of lime to use as a corrective, the farmer is referred to Bulletin 230, "Soil Acidity and Liming," issued by the Wisconsin agricultural experiment station, Madison. |