Show ENEMIES OF ALFALFA PLANT not worth while for farmer to waste expensive seed on sour or alkaline soils sour soil and alkali are en enemies crates of 0 alfalfa most blost sour soils tire are sandy soils where the drainage drain drai ringe Is too good and the time lime has been leached beached out they can be sweetened by adding ground limestone where here this process Is not too expensive and leach leaching lug lessened by incorporating pl plenty city ol of humus in the soli soil this ean an be done by applying stable manure or plowing un oler cpr green manure in the form of growing crops etc alkali soils usually are badly drained and can be corrected by supplying this factor it Is not worth while to waste alfalfa seed on sour or alkaline soils it if they cannot be corrected raise some other crop |