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Show Good Feed, Care Mean Long-Wearing AUalfa Well-Nourished Plants Resist Winter Killing A deep, long-wearing carpet of alfalfa on rolling fields is a matter of liming, keeping the soil's dinner pail well filled with phosphate and potash and following pasture management man-agement methods that prevent premature pre-mature "baldness." Alfalfa will have a long life if it is well fed and cared for. When the plants are well nourished they are hardier and better able to resist re-sist diseases and winter killing. They will anchor their roots firmer and establish healthier, thicker growth above ground. Like other deep-rooted legumes, alfalfa takes large helpings of phosphate phos-phate and potash out of the soil. Agronomists recommend that heavy amounts of fertilizer carrying these nutrients be applied at the time of seeding. The , life of alfalfa can be prolonged pro-longed and yields increased by top-dressing top-dressing with phosphate or potash in the spring or fall. Tests at state agricultural experiment stations have shown that applications of 300 to 600 pounds or more per acre have been beneficial. Good pasture management means going easy on grazing until stands are well established. It is wise to follow a rotation plan so cows will move from one field to another, before be-fore the pasture is grazed down to the ground. By this system the pasture pas-ture will have a chance to renew itself it-self while cows are on other fields. |