Show good shown in mixing alfalfa with timothy what can excel a seeding of alfalfa as a producer of large crops of hay nothing Is the answer most corn belt folks will give but at tile the ill illinois experiment station a mixture of alfalfa and timothy when the held field was wag used for hay for five years out yielded alfalfa alone during the first three years a pure seeding of alfalfa the alfalfa timothy mixture but in the next two years the mixture was enough superior to rank first in the five year average the mixture was waa freer from weeds alan the pure alfalfa seeding the alfalfa died out less rapidly when timothy was used to in the mixture the loss of stand being about aboul half as great in the mixture as compared with the pure edinga se alfalfa wilt did twice as much dama damage geIn in the pure seeding as in the alfalfa thmothy mixture wallac lams a farmer |