Show dandelions CLAIM MANY ALFALFA FIELDS in practically every county in utah at the present time one Is impressed with the exceedingly large number of dandelion plants now ripening their seed in so called alfalfa fields professor J C Il hogenson Hoge naon extension agronomist of the state college of agriculture points out these dandelion fields yield but very little either in hay or pasturage in several fields which have been examined it was found that there was one alfalfa plant about every two square feet white while in between there were from BO 50 to dandelion plants professor hogenson Hogens cin recommends that these old alfalfa fields of dandelions be plowed up and planted to grain or to some cultivated crop when plowing time comes around this year r tho the utah experiment station after checking on alfalfa fileds in all parts of utah tor for a number of years reports that on the average the yield and quantity of alfalfa produced per acre begins to decrease alter after the fifth or sixth year and continued to decrease gradually due to weeds disease insects and lack of soil fertility alfalfa should then be fitten into a regular tour four live five or six year crop rotation by plowing up tour four or five acres of the oldest alfalfa each year and planting the same number of acres of new alfalfa with the barley oat or wheat crop on the young alfalfa fields where dandelions have not yet taken the upper hand it is well to keep the plants growing vigorously by applying a coat of manure to the field each winter and harrowing it in the spring |