Show SET ALFALFA BY MACHINERY experiments made in transplanting by use of machine used for tobacco and tomatoes prof 11 II A hansen of north dakota who has introduced many hardy plants from siberia for the department of agriculture among them hardy strains ot of alfalfa has been experimenting peri in transplanting the latter with a machine using one ona employed tor for tobacco cabbage cauliflower and tomatoes at five points in tle tl e state he be set the plants at the rate of an hour at other points he set them with a plow lie ile thinks this will do away with dodder and injury from disking somo some of the russian alfalfa plants when given room in the garden gahen bad shoots from one browh crown over 1200 farmers are cooperating with professor hansen and many reports fire are coming in showing I 1 their remarkable resistance to the drought of last year |