Show value of alfalfa in crop rotation plants supreme importance to farm shown by experiments farmers and stock growers sit all over uie the west are finding alfalfa more and more important in their farming operations alfalfa oils fills an important place in western systems of crop rotation it Is without a superior as a protein supplying roughage gaage for live stoel stock and it helps in solving the problem of equal distribution of farm labor with these statements john K N spencer in charge of seed re registration istra and T G stewart extension agronomist at the colorado agricultural college open their bulletin lul letin on alfalfa seed production unlike many other crops they continue there la Is at present no overproduction of alfalfa seed among the hardy variegated varieties there is an actual shortage of seed stocks the united states department part ment of agriculture reports importations of alfalfa seed amounting to pounds for 1030 0 11 approximately pounds of alfalfa seed are used each year in colorado xyth less than thae t I 1 pounds being produced it if alfalfa plants tall fall to set seed it Is pointed out the farmer still has a hay or pasture crop left and some returns vill be secured from the field it is possible to determine the extent of the seed set in ample times to cut a normal crop should the set of seed appear insufficient there are many places in the state where seed can be produced with reasonable regularity and with good average profits over a period of years |