The Book of Alfalfa: History, Cultivation and Merits / Its Uses as a Forage and Fertilizer

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Alabama, alfalfa in	16
Alberta, alfalfa in	15
Experiments	231
Acclimation	8, 13, 28
Acid soil, test for	45
Unfavorable	44, 201
Acreage, too great	87
Address, Professor Spillman’s	9
Adulterants	32, 35, 36, 37, 39, 40
Africa, alfalfa introduced	2
South, alfalfa in	15
Agricultural Department bulletin	33
Agriculture, Stover’s; hay-caps	85
Agrostologist’s opinion	9
Air shaft in mow	95
Alaska, hay for	104
Albuminoids	22
Alfalfa fields 200 years old	5
Alfalfa, fails “here”	51
Description	5
Below sea level	15
Improves land values	204
Origin of name	2
Objection to	18
Preparations	182
Is “queen”	141
Replaces other legumes	151
Synonyms	4
Alfamo	185
Alfilaria, merits of	227, 228
Alsike and alfalfa compared	21, 148
Analyses, corn	22
Seed	33
Soil, free	64
Vary	137
Animals, keep off field	221
Annual manuring	70
Appetizer, alfalfa as an	125
Apples and alfalfa together	224
Arabian seed, imported	8
Arapahoe County, Colorado	243
Argentine Republic, alfalfa in	15
Arizona, alfilaria in	227
Experiments	8, 233
Army worm	219
Asiatic seed introduced	7
Assimilative restrictions	134
Avery, Prof. S., on alfamo	185
Bacteria, cowpeas increase	48
Humus helps	61
In some soils	61
In nodules	60, 198
Introducing	46, 50, 51
Introducing unnecessary	199
Lacking, failure result	66
Need nitrogen	60
Not fertilizers	201
On cowpeas	49
Spread on farm	194
Bale, hollow	105
Bales, heating	104
Loading	105
Poor prices for	104
Round	104
Size	104
Shipping	104
Baling	102
New Mexico	283
Machine, new	105
Space saved	105
Barley as nurse crop	58
Leaves weeds	59
Bare spots restored	71
Barn, storing	95
Beach, C. W.	248
Beadle County, South Dakota	300
Beak on trefoil seed	39
Beef, balanced ration for	135
Cheap western	142
Making	138
Yield to acre	130, 131
Bees and alfalfa	12, 175
Belgium, alfalfa introduced	2
Berry, J. W., storing	96
Bindweed	219
Blackshere, J. R., report	260
Blake, John, experiments	233
Bliss, D. S., report	267
Bloat, lambs do not	172
Preventing	110, 113, 171
Preventing, in Kansas	111
Professor Mayo on	116
Remedy	115, 121, 316
Rules to prevent	115
Tapping for	119
Not due to food	117
On alfalfa pasture	109
Bloom, cutting in	80
Cut in	88
Blossoming, cut before	80
Blue grass or alfalfa for pigs	158
Blue-grass, yields	21
With alfalfa	111
Botany of alfalfa	4
Bowman, Prof. M. L., report	257
Bran analysis	127
And alfalfa compared	10, 79, 85, 144
And alfalfa meal for cows	184
Food value	132
Sown with seed	56
Brandon, Manitoba, yield	14
Breaking sod hard work	195
Breeders’ Gazette on sheep pasture	114
Brewers’ grains and alfalfa compared	114
British Columbia, alfalfa in	14
Broadcast seeding	55
Brome grass and alfalfa compared	21
Brooks, Prof. William P., report	266
Brown, Benjamin, report	261
Brown County, South Dakota	302
Brown, George Campbell, report	303
Bruner, Prof. L., on hopper dozer	216
Buck-horn in alfalfa seed	41
Buckwheat bran, food value	132
Buffum, Prof. B. C., on fertilizing value	192
Bulletin, Alabama	232
Farmers’, baled alfalfa	104
Farmers’, irrigation	77
Farmers’, alfalfa for hogs	160
Kansas, hog raising	156
Nebraska, soiling and pasture	123
Nebraska, feed test	139
New Jersey, feed values	132
New York, fodder crops	126
Ohio, impure seed	33
Texas, feedstuffs	127
Utah, cuttings	128
Utah, irrigation	74
Vermont	309
Virginia	311
Wyoming, fertilizing value	192
Bulletins, various hay composition	75
Buncher	87
Burnett, Prof. E. A., dimensions of ton	229
Burning weeds	69
Bushel weight	31
Butter fat, cost	150
Butter, the marketable product	147
Buyer to blame	41
Buying soil, necessity of	61
Dangers of	62
Not necessary	61
Cache County, Utah	304
California, alfalfa introduced	2
Cutting in	89
Eleven cuttings	10
Experiments	8, 238
Feeding alfalfa alone	148
Sheep fattening	205
Camden County, New Jersey	282
Canada, alfalfa in	14
Time to sow	47
Canadian Northwest yield	14
Cannula for bloat	119
Cape Colony, alfalfa in	15
Capons on alfalfa	187
Carbohydrates and fats interchangeable	135
Function of	135
Not replace protein	136
In excess	136
In hay	76
Lacking	125
Carbonaceous foods needed	125
Carlyle, Prof. W. L., hay	173
Cattle, dangers in pasture	109
Experiences with	110
Growing, balanced ration	135
Young, balanced ration	135
Pasturing	235
Utah, fed	25
Chase County, Kansas	260
Champlain Valley	310
Characteristics, seed	37
Chick weed, destroying	303
City use of alfalfa	187
Clark County, Kansas	258
Clark, Thomas J., report	283
Clay, alfalfa on	15, 19, 17
Climates adapted to	15
Affects irrigation	77
Curing in dry	87
Arid, effect on hay	76, 88, 94
Arid, irrigation in	73
Humid, curing difficulties	88
Humid, difficulties	81
Humid, effect on hay	76
Humid, harvesting	82
Humid, hay-caps	85, 89
Humid, haying in	94
Humid, seed raising	92
Clipping before bloom	67
Invigorates	67
Clothier praises alfalfa	10
Clover, alfalfa following	50
And alfalfa compared	20, 21, 127, 143, 146, 148, 149, 222
Beaten on thin soil	19
Bur, adulterant	32, 33, 40
Bur, bacteria on	199
Bur, everywhere	61
Bur, seed recognized	39
Bur, seed in alfalfa	32
Feed value	126, 132, 145
Hay making	83
Hop, an adulterant	35
Huller for threshing	91
Pin	227
Plowed for alfalfa	49
Protein value	133
Sweet, adulterants	32, 33, 40
Sweet, bacteria	60
Sweet, everywhere	61
Sweet, stock reject	40
Sweet, seed described	40
With alfalfa	51, 112
Clover soil, Sweet, for inoculating	60, 202
Cocking at night	84
Colorado, alfalfa precedes sugar beet	173
Alfalfa in orchards	223
Bees in	175
Corn and alfalfa compared	132
Cutting in	73
Experiments	243
Fall sowing in	53
Feeding in	141
Ground alfalfa for pigs	182
Harvesting in	84
Hay composition	76
Hog rations	156
Lamb feeding	173
Losses from stacking	98
Losses in curing	82
Pasturing sheep	113
Plowing alfalfa for other crops	193
Seed	29
Sheep fattening	205
Siloing	102
Value of stubble	191
Wetted hay	81
Colusa County, California	241
Combustion, spontaneous, See Fire
Composition, irrigation influences	74
Prof. Ten Eyck quoted	75
Varies	149
Compression, double	104
Connecticut, experiments	247
Cooke, Prof. W. W., corn and alfalfa	132
Co-operative irrigation experiments	76
Corn analysis	127
And alfalfa compared	22, 132, 222
Before reseeding	72
Composition	136
Fails	16, 17, 23
Fed with alfalfa	125
Feed value	132
Fodder and alfalfa compared	148
Fodder, feed composition	136
Fodder, feed value	145
Fodder, analyses	127
Fodder, protein value	133
Fodder, value	126
Following alfalfa	193
Increasing yield with alfalfa	194
Lands, Illinois, alfalfa on	16
Meal sown with seed	56
Precedes alfalfa	46
Money from acre	25
Silage and alfalfa for cows commended	152
Stover and alfalfa compared	148
Unprofitable fattening food	126
Cortes brings alfalfa to America	2
Cottonseed, analysis	127
Meal replaced by alfalfa	151
Hulls, analysis	127
Analysis	127
Composition	137
Cotton soils, depleted, for alfalfa	16
Cottonwood river bottom lands	260
Cottrell, Prof. H. M., alfalfa meal	183
Early cutting	80
Sowing	30
Spontaneous combustion	98
Country Gentleman, dodder	207
Cover crop, winter before alfalfa	48
Cowpea analysis	127
Cowpeas, bacteria	49
Before fall seeding	49
Feed value	132, 145
Increase bacteria	48
Increase fertility	48
Preceding alfalfa	46
Prepare soil for alfalfa	46
Winter cover	48
Cows, number to acre	205
Scrub fed in Kansas	143
Sell farm produce	147
Crab grass, destroying	303
In seed	35
Keeping down	112
Persistent enemy	68
Craters in center, preventing	97
Creep, in pasturing lambs	172
Cresceus eats alfalfa	167
Critical time with alfalfa	73
Crops, small	65
Comparisons	130
First season	65
To introduce bacteria	50
Crop-worn land improved	16
Cultivation, perfect, essential	44
Curing, Arizona	235
Case in	93
Difficult after rain	82
Dry climates	87
Hay-caps for	84
Important agent in	93
Improper	83
Kansas	259
Losses in	82, 93
New Mexico	283
Pennsylvania bulletin	83
Poor method	87
Proper	83
Rules	89
Stack	90
Test	97
Utah	304
Washington	314
Windrow	87
Cuscuta arvensis	42
Cuscuta epithymum	42, 207
Cut for cows	144
Cutting after rain	82
Before or after irrigation	73
Colorado	246
Dates, Utah	78
Difficulties in humid climate	81
Early	21
Early, objections	89
Early, Professor Cottrell quoted	80
Ensilage first	101
First, not for seed	89
For silo	101, 102
Frequent	88
In bloom	88
Kansas	261
Montana	271
Number of times	89
Rules	89
Seed time	89
Second, for seed	92
Third, for seed	91
Time	80, 82, 89
Utah	304
Clover and alfalfa compared	20
Early, most protein in	81
Nine a year	10
Number in Alabama	231
Number in California	242
Relative values	127
Six or more under irrigation	72
Time between	24
Two preferred	88
Dactylis glomerata with alfalfa	111
Damp hay, storing	97
Dampness in mow	97
Dangers in irrigation	73
Dangers from dampness	97
Dairy cow, balanced ration	135
Interests enhanced	205
Products in South	14
Dairies, alfalfa	26
Dairying, alfalfa in	143
Davis, Hon. T. B., alfalfa in West Virginia	317
Dawley, F. E., dodder	207
De Jarnette, J. B. experiments	241
Deer Lodge County, Montana	271
Defective alfalfa seed	33
Delaware, experiments	248
Seed for	29
Department of Agriculture experiments	8
Buying soil	62
Imports Asiatic seed	7
Hog raising	160
Depths roots go	6
Description of alfalfa	5
Desert, alfalfa in Nevada	16, 17
Dew on hay, effects	85
Dextrin losses in hay	81
Dickson, W. H., experiments	249
Difficulties in growing in 1793	3
Reduced by fall sowing	49
Digestible matter to acre	126
Digestive restrictions	134
Dimensions to ton	229
Diseased soil for inoculation	62
Disking	70
After freshets	44
After turning	69
Benefits of	71
Each spring	70
Fields after cutting	24
Overcomes failure	71
Splits crowns	57
To kill weeds	59
District of Columbia, yield in	14
Distribution of alfalfa	13, 14
Dodder, annoying enemy	206
Cut with scythe	91
Destroying, Alabama	232
Eradicating	210
Fighting	207
In alfalfa seed	32, 35
Virginia	311
Most dreaded	42
Objectionable impurity	42
Seed described	41
Seed not adulterant	42
Seed removing	42, 91
Spreading	209
To get rid of	42
Dodson, Prof. W. R., alfalfa for Louisiana	14
Report	264
Donaldson, L., report	302
“Don’ts”	225
Double compression	104
Downing, Jacob, experiments	243
Drainage necessary	18
Drenching animals	122
Drill seeding	55
Favored by Spurrier	67
Drumheller, Oscar, report	315
“Dry land” alfalfa	29
Dry matter in corn	22
Drying out, danger of soil	50
Duggar, Prof. J. F., Alabama	231
Dunn, George W., report	295
Dyeing with alfalfa seed	32
Dying out	221
Earthworms, encouraging	46
Economy of alfalfa	151
Of alfalfa in dairying	149
Of balanced ration	134
Of labor	21, 25
Of root growth	6
Eight cuttings in Louisiana	14
Eighty feet to water	44
Elements specially needed	65
Eleven cuttings a year	10
Elgin dairyman praises alfalfa	153
Enemies	200
Ensiling	270
Kansas	151
England, growing in	261
Alfalfa introduced	2
Examination of soil	64
Example of success	17
Exhibition stalk, large	6
Experiment stations disfavor nurse	59
Favor inoculation	60
Export alfalfa hay	104
Exports, seeds	31
Erf, Prof. Oscar, alfalfa for cows	140
Erodium citcutarium	227
Essentials of growing	44
Of preparing soil	46
Evaporation in curing	83
In mow	97
Failures, because not cut	69
Causes of	220
Due to weeds	48
Of seed	30
Overcome by disking	71
Redeeming	65
To be expected	201
Fairchild, D. G., Arabian seed	8
Fall sowing	49, 52, 53
Fanning mill	91
Fanning removes dodder	42
Farr, Aaron F. Jr., report	304
Fat and carbohydrates interchangeable	135
In corn	21
In hay	76
Not replaceable by protein	136
Fats in excess	136
Lacking in alfalfa	125
Fattening with corn unprofitable	126
Farming, character altered	17
Farmers’ Assistant mentions alfalfa	3
Farms, fruit, alfalfa on	17
Feed, quality	145
Value, fodder crops	126
Values, various	145
Feeding alfalfa alone	148
Before pasturing	110
Colorado	141
Cows economically	152
Economical western	142
Experiments for milk	184
Hogs, Nebraska	159
Tests	138
Tests, hog	156
Tests, Kansas	138, 142
Tests, Nebraska	139
Tests, various cuttings	81
Tests, Utah	138
Waste in	144
Value, Arizona	236
Value, California	241
Value, Colorado	247
Value, Idaho	253
Value, Kansas	259
Value, Utah	305, 306
Value, various cuttings	88
Value, various crops	132
Feedstuffs, analysis	126
Fertility, best means of improving	147
Increased by cowpeas	48
Robbed by nurse crops	58
Fertilization by bees	177
Fertilizers, Alabama	231, 232
Specially needed	65
Fertilizing, Georgia	250
Virginia	312
Long Island	288
Fescue, meadow yields	21
Festuca elatior with alfalfa	111
Fiber in corn	22
Fields disked after cutting	24
Of alfalfa 200 years old	5
Old, in South Carolina	9
Old in West	9
Fire for weeds	69
Preventing	96
Fires caused by wet hay	97
Occur, when	98
Professor Cottrell discusses	98
Rare	96
Flesh forming	11
Flooding at critical time	73
Effects	44
For second crop	72
Floor, loose preferred for storing	95
Florida, alfalfa in	15
Fodder corn, feed value	145
Crops, feed value of	126
Fodders, values of various	145
Fort Collins lambs	173
Foster, Prof. L., cuttings	128
Foxtail, keeping down	112
France, alfalfa introduced	1, 2
Oldest fields in	5
Seed from	32
Fraser, W. J., feed for cows	152
Fraud in alfalfa seed	36
Freshet, disking after	44
Freshets, effect	44
Freezing effect on soil	195
Harm from	50
Soil for seeding	52
Fruit farms, alfalfa on	17
Raising, alfalfa in	223
Fullerton, H. B., report	288
Furnas County, Nebraska	273
Garman, Prof. H., report	264
Gaylord Farm Sanatorium	248
Georgia, experiments	250
Germ killed	27
Germany, seed from	32
Germinability, storing impairs	30
Germination, conditions influencing	57
Test seed for	28
Gila River irrigation	234, 283
Ginther, C. M., report	254
Gill, E. T., report	282
Gluten meal, feed composition	137
Replaced	151
Go-devil	87, 95
Gophers injure alfalfa	212
Grades and grading hay	105
Graham, Thomas C., experiments	235
Grain and alfalfa compared	161
Encourages weeds	59
Grange meeting at Mr. Worker’s	18
Grant County, New Mexico	283
Grasses and alfalfa compared	21
Grass, destroying by fire	69
Pin	227
Preceding alfalfa	50
Protein value	133
Grasses in pastures	116
With alfalfa	111, 113
Grasshoppers	216
Gravel, alfalfa on	15, 18
Greece, alfalfa taken to	1
Grinding, time and power required	184
Growth after cutting	21
Delayed by cold water	73
From imported seed	30
Gumbo, soil, alfalfa succeeds	17
Habitat of alfalfa	1
Influence	28
Habits altered by locality	28
Farm, changed by alfalfa	181
Handling hay	89
Little advisable	94
Hanna, S. C., bloat	111
Hansen, Prof. N. E. in Asia	7
Harrow, common not disk	70
Harrowing after cutting	24
To kill weeds	59
Harrows	70
Hartman and Weil, report	285
Harvest, dates Utah	78
Early for hogs	160
Harvester, Acme	262
Harvesting	79
By stock	107
Few and many	88
Humid climates	82
Like grain	88
Loss of leaves	80
Operations, time between	87
Seed	89
Time	80
Time to begin	82
Hawaii, hay for	104
Hay and silage compared	102
Association, National, grades	106
Association, Spillman’s address	9
Baling, California	240
Composition depends on water	75
Feed value	145
First season	65
Grades	105
In mow, watch	97
In windrows	84
Lying in swath	84
Making, Arizona	237
Making, losses in	82
Meal cheaper than baled	186
Measuring in stack	228
Money in	22, 23
Poorly cured, value	87
Preserved, color	94
Prairie and alfalfa compared	140, 141, 148, 150
Prairie, composition	136
Prairie, dimensions of ton	229
Prairie, feed value	145
Value of	91
Values, Arizona	235
Various, and alfalfa compared	148
Yield to acre, Utah	78
Hay-caps advantages	85
Described	86
Favor baling	103
Humid regions	84
Size of	86
Use of	85, 86, 89
Haying, time between operations	84
Hay-loader, belt	88
Headden, Prof. W. P., stubble value	191
Long roots	6
Curing	82
Seed storing	31
Heating, prevent in transit	105
Seed	31
Seed stack	90
Stack	90
Heaving, danger of	50
Height, normal	6
Highmore forage testing station	300
Hill, Prof. J. L., report	309
Hillman, Prof. F. H., dodder	42
Hitchcock, A. S., baled alfalfa	104
Feeding alfalfa alone	148
Quoted on irrigation	77
Hoard, Gov., brood sows	155
Yield	23
Rotation	194
Hoard’s Dairyman, economical butter	144
Hogs, alfalfa or blue grass for	158
Balanced ration for	136
Cut early for	160
Food for fattening	46
Kansas	155
Like alfalfa	23, 154, 237
Over stocking with	161
Pastured on surplus acres	87
Pasture for	48, 108
Hollingsworth, J. H.	255
Honey from alfalfa	12, 178
Hoove, See Bloat.
Hopper dozer	216
Kansas	218
Prof. S. J. Hunter	217
Hopkins, Prof. C. G., pot cultures	202
Report	253
Hog raising, Kansas	161
Horse raising, Ohio	166
Raising	165, 166
Horses, alfalfa for work	166
Alfalfa for driving	167
Cheap feed for	188
Injure pasture	109
On pasture	170
Overfed	166
Thrive on pasture	109
Humus favors bacteria	61
Hunter, Prof. S. J., hopper dozer	217
Bees	176
Idaho, experiments	251
Italy, alfalfa introduced	1
Illinois, alfalfa in	16
Experiments	253
Feeding cows in	152
Pot culture experiments	202
Seed for	29
Imported seed	30, 31
Impurities in seed	32, 33
Income, alfalfa	22, 23, 25, 26
Indiana, experiments	254
Yield in	23
Infected soil	60
Injuries from lime	66
Inoculation, Alabama	232
Any method helpful	199
Dangers of	62
Seed not needed	64
Failures expected	201
Illinois	254
Long Island	288
Massachusetts	266
Methods various	63
Necessary	200
Not like magic	202
Old theory	197
Soil, not needed	64
Soil, Sweet clover	202
Unnecessary	200
Virginia	311
With diseased soil	62
Insects carried by soil	63
In seeds	31
Introducing on farm	28
Iowa, experiments	257
Leaf spot in	211
Pig raising	158
Seed for	29
Spring sowing	54, 55
Irish, C. W., depth of root growth	6
Irrigation after cutting	73
Alfalfa under	72
Before cutting	73
California	238
Colorado	244
Co-operative experiments	76
Effect on hay	76
Excessive	72
Gila River	234
Harrow	24
Idaho	253
Influence on composition	74
Influence on seed	28
Increases protein	75
Necessary to saturate soil	78
New Mexico	283
Oregon	295
Salt River	236
Spring	73
Utah bulletin	74
Water to acre, Utah	77
Irrigation Farming quoted	73
Irrigated land, yield	10, 23
Irrigations, number of	77
Italy, seed from	32
Jefferson, book dedicated to	3
Jenkins, Dr. E. H., report	247
Jones, John, report	306
Jones, O. S., report	301
Jordan, Dr. W. H., opinion of feed	141
Kafir corn preceding alfalfa	49
Fed with alfalfa	125
Feed composition	136
Kansas, alfalfa flowers	176
Alfalfa for dairyman	149
Alfilaria for	228
Annual top dressing	70
Bees	175, 176
Bulletin, balanced ration	135
Broadcasting at experiment station	56
Cows on small area	144
Curing in	87
Early cut hay for hogs	160
Ensiling	151
Crab grass	68
Eighty feet to water	45
Experiments	259
Fall sowing	53
Feeding cows	144
Feeding tests	138, 142
Grass in alfalfa fields	112
Gopher injuries	213
Hay, composition of	76
Hog raising	155, 161, 163
Hopper dozer	218
Horses raised	165
Lands, values increased	204
Low cost ration	150
Prairie dogs	212
Profit from hogs	162
Profit in	22, 23, 25
Preventing bloat	111
Protein in cuttings	81
Seed	29
Seed raising	90
Self-binder for harvesting	88
Sheep fattened	171, 287
Siloing	102
Soiling and pasturing	123
Sowing	57
Spring sowing	55
Station disfavors salt	100
Station on baling	103
Stock feeding	103
Storing in	96
Time to sow	47
Third cutting for seed	91
Wheat after alfalfa	193
Wintering horses	167
Work with scrub cows	143
Kenilworth Farms, Arizona	235
Kent County, Delaware	249
Kentucky experiments	264
Kiefer, H. W., report	251
Kilgore, Dr. B. W., report	289
Kirk, F. S., pasturing	113
Yield	24
Labor prices	204
Saved	25
Lake County, South Dakota	301
Lamb-feeding, Nebraska	172
Lambs, fattening	46
Fort Collins	173
On pasture	114
Never bloat	172
Pasturage for	48
Quarter in seed	35
Land, alfalfa on bottom	24
Foul, unfit for alfalfa	59
Values improved	204
Worthless made valuable	25
Langston, Alva, yield	24
Lantz, Prof. D. E., gopher injuries	213
Large alfalfa roots	18
Latitude influence on seed	28
Leaching, winter prevented	48
Leaf spot	63, 211
Legumes, bacteria on	60
Prepare soil	49
Leaves and stems, feed value compared	82
Broken by tedder	84
Lost in curing	80, 82, 183
Help in curing	83
Proportion to stems	128
Saved by slings	94
Pay for floor	99
Value	79
Lewis, D. C., report	281
Light discolors seed	31
Liggett, Prof. W. M., report	269
Lime, air slaked	66
Injuries	66
Must be applied	64
Needed	45, 201
Prevents mold	100
Small dressings advisable	66
Soil for	231
Liming	249
Connecticut	248
Massachusetts	266
Ohio	290
Lincoln County, Nebraska	275
Linseed meal and alfalfa compared	127
Feed composition	137
Replaced by alfalfa	151
Listing waxy ground	52
Litmus for testing soil	45
Loader, disadvantages	95
Loading, slings	94
Localities influence seed	28
Logan County, Idaho	252
Long Island, experiments	288
Loss from impure seed	32
Losses due to wetting	81
In curing	82
Louisiana, alfalfa in	14
Cutting in	89
Experiments	265
Lowden, F. M., report	314
Lucerne, book dedicated to Jefferson	3
Intermediate	76
Origin of name	4
Yellow	7
Lumps, soil, bad	50
Mangels, feed value	126, 145
Protein value	133
Manitoba, alfalfa in	14, 15
Mammoth clover yields	21
Manure before seeding	64
Manuring	46, 70
Wheat land for alfalfa	48
Mare, ration for brood	165, 169
Marketing	137
Markham, L. W., experiments	245
Maryland, alfalfa in	16
Seed for	29
Massachusetts, analyses, clover	20
Experiments	266
Matthies, John	248
Maximum yield, irrigation	77
Maury County, Tennessee	303
Mayo, Prof. N. S., bloat	116
McEathron, George E., report	301
McNeil, E. W., succeeds in West Virginia	317
Meadow fescue and alfalfa compared	21
Fescue and alfalfa yields	21
Meal, Prof. Cottrell’s opinion	183
Superior to hay	184
Sown with seed	56
Meat production in South	14
Medicago denticulata, bacteria	60
Medicago foliata	7
Medicago media	76
Medicago sativa	4
Medicine Hat, yield	14
Medick, black, an adulterant	35
Medicks, fifty species	36
Meeting at Mr. Worker’s	18
Melilotus, bacteria on	60
Merrill, Prof. L. A., fed horses	168
On cuttings	128
Mexican fields, old	5
Mexico, alfalfa introduced in	2
Alfilaria for	228
Growing	244
Michigan, experiments	268
Middlesex County, New Jersey	281
Middlings, food value	132
Milk, alfalfa in making	143
Balanced ration	135
Cost of gallon	150
Flow increased	152
Tests	143
The marketable product	147
Value an acre	144
Yield increased	146
Yield, pasture and soiling	123
Miller, Henry, experiments	238
Miller, Prof. M. F., report	270
Millet, alfalfa sown with	51
And alfalfa compared	146, 148
As preparatory crop	52
Before reseeding	72
Best to precede alfalfa	49
Between potatoes and alfalfa	48
Fed with alfalfa	125
Feed value	132, 145
Good to precede	50
Protein value	133
Minimum water to apply	77
Minnesota, experiments	260
Field, old	9
Seed for	29
Spring sowing	55
Time to sow	47
Yield in	14
Missouri, alfalfa in	16
Experiments	270
Fall sowing	53
Moisture absorbed by straw	97
Conserve before seeding	47
Robbed by nurse crop	58
Molasses, adulterated with	265
With alfalfa	185
Mold, prevent in stacks	90
Moldy seed	27
Monmouth County, New Jersey	282
Montana, experiments	271
Pasturing sheep	114
Seed	29
Sheep fattening	205
Moore, Dr. G. T., breeds bacteria	108
Moore, Prof. R. A., report	311
Morgan, Prof. H. A., report	302
Mortgage lifter	11
Mow, fires	95
Storing	95
Mower not favored for seed harvest	90
Mowing, early	21
For yellow leaf	67
Improves stand	67
In wet season	68
May be wrong	68
Mulch not needed	68
“Musts”	225
National Hay Association grades	106
Neale, Dr. Arthur F., report	248
Nebraska, alfamo	185
Alfilaria for	228
Comparative yields	21
Curing	87
Experiments	273
Fall sowing	53
Feed tests	139
Hog feeding test	159
Hopper dozer	216
Lamb feeding	172
Lands, values increased	204
Profit	22, 23, 25
Sand hills	15, 17
Seed	29
Sheep fattened	171, 205
Soiling	123
Spring sowing	54
Stock feeding	103
Work horses fed	166
Nebraska Farmer, on cutting	69
Nebraska Farmer, various fields	148
Nelson, J. P., report	282
Nematodes in soil	62
Nevada, alfalfa in	14
Alfalfa, on sagebrush land	15
Deserts, alfalfa succeeds in	17
New Brunswick, alfalfa unknown in	15
New England, cutting	89
Seed for	29
Soiling	124
Success	311
New Hampshire, experiments	279
New Jersey, experiments	280
Hay composition	76
Milk test	143
Feed values	132
Plant food to acre	192
Seed for	29
Yields of clover	20
New Mexico, alfilaria for	228
Experiments	283
New Milford, Connecticut	248
Seed, new preferred	30
New York, alfalfa introduced	3
Alfalfa success	17
Dairymen claim profits	144
Experiments	287
Lands improved	26
Old field	9
Seed for	29
Soiling advisable	124
New York Station fodder crops	126
Newman, Prof. C. L., report	299
Nitro-cultures	249
Nitrogen from roots	10
From soil	52
Gathered	190, 192
Gathered by cowpeas	49
Not needed	10
Old plants need none	60
Robbed by nurse crop	58
Specially needed	65
Sustains bacteria	60
Nobbe, discovery of bacteria	197
Nodules formed	59
North Carolina, experiments	289
North Dakota, experiments	286
Turkestan alfalfa	8
Nova Scotia, alfalfa unknown	15
Nurse crop, effects of cutting alfalfa	59
Iowa	257
Or not?	58
Nutrient values, various	145
Oat grass yields	21
Oat hay, analysis	127
And alfalfa compared	148
Feed value	145
Oat straw feed value	145
Protein value	133
Oats, sown with alfalfa	51
And peas, feed value	126, 132
As nurse crop	58
Before reseeding	72
Following alfalfa	193
Feed value	132
Foster weeds	59
Ohio bulletin, seed	33, 34
Experiments	290
Fall sowing	53
Farmer sows thickly	58
Horse raising	166
Pasturing lambs	114
Preliminary seeding	51
Requisites in growing	225
Seed for	29
Oil meal and alfalfa compared	140
Oklahoma, cutting	89
Experiments	292
Pasturing	113
Seed	29
Yield	24
Olmstead and Olmstead, report	273
Ontario, lamb feeding	173
Yield	14
Orchard, alfalfa in	223
Orchard-grass, yields	21
Feed value	145
Protein value	133
With alfalfa	111
Oregon, experiments	295
Osborne County, Kansas	260
Otterson, James, report	252
Otis, Prof. D. H., feeding cows	144
Pasture for hogs	163
Overfeeding horses	166
Over stocking with hogs	161
Panicum capillare, a weed	69
Panicum sanguinale, a weed	68
Destroying	303
Parasites in purchased soil	62
Pasture, alfalfa in grass	51
And soiling compared	123
Cattle	263
Grasses, feed value	145
Horses	263
Lamb	48
Only when established	108
Pig	48
Poultry	180
Sheep	263
Stock	24
Uplands	116
Pasturing	107
Cattle	113
Horses	170
Previous to seeding	47
Rules for	116
When to stop	108
Pennsylvania, alfalfa introduced	3
Bulletin, curing	83
Experiments	297
Seed for	29
Soiling advisable	124
Perry, C. D., report	259
Physical effects, root growth	6
Effects on soil	21
Phosphoric acid needed	65
Pig, See Hog.
Pigs, death rate reduced	155
Pigweed in seed	35
Pinal County, Arizona	235
Pin-clover	227
Pittuck, Prof. B. C., report	297
Plantain in seed	41
Plants smother in wet land	44
Smothered under windrows	84
Weak with nurse crops	58
Pliny praised alfalfa	1
Plow, character of tool	195
Plowing, deep, necessary	46
Difficult	195
For other crops	193
Importance of careful	195
Proper	221
Recent not good	50
Sod, rate of	195
Stand renewed by	72
Plowings saved	21
Pods poorly filled	89
Pork, producing cheap	158
Potash specially needed	65
Potatoes following alfalfa	193
Precede alfalfa	48, 50
Poultry thrive on	180
Prairie dogs, destroying	215
Injure alfalfa	212
Preparation, proper	220
Soil	46
Preparatory crops	49, 50
Presses for baling	104
Press drills favored	56
Prices received	22, 23
Profit reduced in feeding cows	146
Profits	22, 23, 25, 144, 147
Protection, winter	108
From sun not needed	58
Protein, abundance in alfalfa	125
And carbohydrates not interchangeable	136
Digestible	126
Excess in ration	137
Function of	134
Highest in first cutting	129
In clover	20, 21
Increased by irrigation	75
In early cuttings	81
In hay	76
Percentage in leaves	79
Values, various feeds	145
Provence, seed from	32
Prowers County, Colorado	245
Purgatives for bloat	122
Quebec, alfalfa in	15
Quicklime very caustic	66
Rain, cutting after	82
Hay-caps	89
Rain-fall effect on hay	75
Influence on seed	28
Raiscot, Alfred, report	271
Rake, Monarch	262
Side delivery	87
Time to start	84
Range of soils	16, 17
Rape, analysis	127
And alfalfa for hogs compared	162
Ration, balanced	134
Balanced, explained	135
Cost of	150, 151
Money value	138
Unbalanced	134
Receipts	22, 23, 25
Recleaning seed, importance	32
Recleaning to remove dodder	42
Redding, Prof. R. J., report	250
Red-top and alfalfa compared	148
Yields	21
Renewing growth	71
Rentals of land	26
Reseeding	65, 66, 71, 72
Rhode Island, experiments	298
Rib grass in alfalfa seed	41
Rice meal, food value	132
Richmond, Indiana	255
Rick, measuring for tonnage	229
Preferred	100
Roberts, Prof. H. F., adulterants	35
Robinson, J. W., raises horses	165
Rome, alfalfa taken to	1
Roofing for hay sheds	99
Root growth	190
Growth, physical effect	6
System	6
Roots, deep	6
Nitrogen in soil from	10
Spindling, with nurse crop	58
Thumb-sized	18
Value of	21, 191
Rot, root	212
Rotation necessary	194
Roughness supplied by alfalfa	18
Various kinds to feed	145
Rural New-Yorker, article quoted	17
Rutabagas, fodder value	126
Rye bran, food value	132
Grass yields	21
Winter cover	48, 49
Sacramento River, growth	241
Sagebrush land for	252
Land, new alfalfa on	15
Sales	22, 23
Salt River, irrigation	236
Salt in storing hay	100
San Mateo County, California	238
San Miguel County, New Mexico	285
Sand hills, Nebraska, alfalfa succeeds	15, 17
Scott Bros., yield	22, 23
Screened alfalfa seed recommended	36
Scrub-oak land for	288
Seed, adulterated	33
Analysis	33
Bed, securing a fine	48
Bees insure fertile	175
Best costly	41
Best from Provence	32
Buck-horn in	41
Bur clover in	39
Bushel weight	31
Characteristics	37
Cheap	27, 41
Conditions influencing germination	57
Cutting time	89
Damp	27
Dodder described	41
Dodder in	32
Exports and imports	31
Failures, imported	30
Farmer to blame for poor bought	41
First cutting not for	89
For Illinois	29
For Iowa	29
For Ohio	29
For Pennsylvania	29
Formation, bees help in	176
Good costly	29
Good, essential	27
Harvesting	89
Importance of pure	35
Impurities	32
Imported, Department of Agriculture	7
Increased by bees	175
Influences affecting	28
Injuries by storing	30
Inoculation not needed	64
Insects in	31
Introduced from Europe	3
Kansas	29
Kept several years	30
Kind to buy	29
Large and small	38
Losses in stored	30
Moldy	27
Nebraska	29
Necessity of drying	90
New preferred	30
Northern grown	28
Noxious	34
Oklahoma	29
Old	27
Plantain in	41
Pods, poorly filled	89
Poor, cause failures	221
Precautions in buying	29
Pure	28
Purest in third cutting	91
Quality of	27
Quantity sowed	24, 56
Raising, dry climate	28
Raising, humid climates	28, 92
Raising, Kansas	90
Removing infertile	91
Removing weed	91
Returns	22, 23
Rib grass in	41
Roberts on pure	35
Selection	27, 28
Sifting to remove dodder	42
Size of Bur clover	39
Size of	38
Storing	31
Substitution of trefoil	39
Test before buying	29
Third crop self sown	72
Third cutting for	91
Types of	37
Utah vs. imported	30
Value in Arizona	235
Vitality injured in stack	90
Weed in alfalfa	34
Yield	91
Yield, Arizona	237
Seeding	44
After disking unnecessary	71
Alabama	231
Arizona	233
California	238
Colorado	244
Drill or broadcast	55
Fall	49
Importance of	79
July	66
Kansas	258
Manure before	64
Pennsylvania	297
Preliminary	51
Soaking soil before	73
Seeder, Cahoon	234
Gem	242
Seeders, various	56
Seeds dead	27
Fertile few	89
Seedsmen to blame for bad seed	41
Selection of seed	27, 28
Self sowing third crop	72
Self-binder, harvesting with	88
In seed harvest	90
Selling inoculated soil	61
Separator, J. I. Case	237
Separators in threshing seed	91
Shed, hay	99
Sheep, dangers to, from pasturing	109, 113
Eat bindweed	219
Fort Collins	174
Losses from bloat	113
Old, kept off pasture	114
Shepperd, Prof. J. H., report	289
Sifting out dodder	42
Silage for cows	152
Storing as	101
Superior to hay	151
Silo, advantages of using	151
Cost of	152
For alfalfa	101
Siloing suggestions	102
Slings in stacking	94
Smead, Dr. D. C., horse feeding	168
Smith, Prof. C. D., report	268
Smith, Prof. H. R., feed test	139
Smothering under windrows	84
In wet land	44
Snake River irrigation	251
Soaking soil before seeding	73
Sod, breaking, for alfalfa	50
Hard to plow	195
Soil acid, unfavorable	44
Acidity determined	45
Adobe	239
And seeding	44
Baked, avoid	46
Bur clover for inoculating	60
Buying inoculated	60, 61
Buying not necessary	61
Buying infected	60
Buying, objections to	61
Character affects irrigation	77
Conditions demanded	52
Conditions essential	46
Depleted, improved	16
Diseased, for inoculation	62
For alfalfa	15
Gumbo	261
Hardpan	16, 18
Improved by alfalfa	16, 190
Improvement due to alfalfa	16
Inoculated for sale	61
Inoculated, quantity to acre	61
Inoculation	59, 197
Inoculation, dangers of	62
Inoculation, meal or hay for	63
Inoculation, not necessary	63, 64
Listed	52
Never work wet	46
Not exhausted by alfalfa	10
Preparation	46, 297
Preparing, Arizona	233, 236
Preparing, Colorado	243
Preparation, Washington	314
Restrictions, obsolete	44
Robbed of lime	44
Rocky	19
Sugar tree land	255
Waxy	52
Wet makes failures	44
Soiling	107, 122
Advised in East	124
And pasturing compared	123
Nebraska	123
Pigs	124
Sorghum analysis	127
Bad to precede alfalfa	49
Consumes moisture	49
Fails to increase milk flow	148
Fed with alfalfa	125
Feed value	145
Hay, feed composition	136
Protein value	133
Soule, Prof. Andrew M., report	311
South Africa, alfalfa in	15
South Carolina, experiments in	299
Old field	9
South Dakota, experiments	300
South favors spring sowing	52
Land values increased	205
Sowing time	47
Southern farms, self supplied	14
Southern seed	28
Sowing dates	47
Fall	49, 53
Foul land	59
Spring disadvantages	53
Spring or fall?	52
Spring, on wheat ground	48
Points to remember	47
Time, South	47
Time, Central States	47
Sows, brood, Mississippi	155
Like alfalfa	154
Soy beans, feed value	145
Feed composition	137
Spain, alfalfa introduced	1, 2
Takes alfalfa to America	2
Spillman, Prof. W. J., opinion	9
Spontaneous combustion, See Fire.
Spot, leaf	211
Spots, bare, in lodged nurse crop	59
Restoring bare	71
Spotted leaf, mowing for	67
Spring or fall sowing?	52
Spring sowing, disadvantages	53
Sowing favored	53
Sowing, importance of early	58
Spurrier on alfalfa	3
Favors drills	67
Stack, curing in	90
Elevate bottom of	100
Fires in	95
Protect top	100
Sweating in	90
Stacks, condemned	99
Covering seed	90
Preventing mold in	90
Stacker, Landen	235
Stacking, conditions	100
Dry	93
In ricks	259
Losses from	98
Operations in	87
Precautions	90
Seed crop	89
Slings recommended	94
Stadmueller, F. H.	248
Stand, ideal	57
Improving	67
Increasing	51
Plowing to renew	72
Poor	27, 30, 54
Securing good	220
Thickening	72
With nurse crop	58
Starch in corn	22
Needed by bacteria	60
Steers pick up on alfalfa	125
Stellaria media, destroying	297
Stems and leaves, food value compared	82
Stewart, Prof. J. H., report	310
Stock, best way to market alfalfa	137
Fed, Utah	25
Injure alfalfa	107
Keep off field	221
Stodder, J. F., bloat	112
Storer, Prof. F. H., hay-caps	85, 86
Storing	93
As silage	101
In barn	95
In evening	97
Seed	31
Stover and alfalfa compared	140, 148
Fed with alfalfa	125, 144
Protein value	133
Straw, feed value	145
Feeding value, Colorado	245
For stack feed	91
Money in	22, 23
On damp hay	97
Protein value	133
Value of	91, 240
Stubble, value of	21, 191
Stubbs, Dr. W. C., experiments	265
Subsoil, tough, roots in	18
Subsoiling effects of alfalfa	16, 194
Substitute for alfalfa	36
Substitutes, recognising	40
Substitution of trefoil for alfalfa	39
Success depends on cultivation	44
Typical in New York	17
Sugar and alfalfa	185
Sugar beet dependent on alfalfa	173
Sugar beets, feed value	126, 145
Protein value	133
Sugar, losses in hay	81
Sun not greatest curing agent	83
Swath, alfalfa lying in	84
Sweating before baling	103
In stack	90
Sweet clover in alfalfa seed	32
Clover soil for inoculation	60, 202
Swine, See Hogs.
Swing seeder	56
Synoground, N. O. P., report	302
Syracuse, alfalfa near	17
Sysonby eats alfalfa	167
Taliaferro, Prof. W. T. L., opinion	16
Tapping for bloat	119
Taproot	6
Taylor, Prof. Frederick W., report	279
Tedder, loss from using	84
Starting	84
Ten Eyck, Prof. A. M., burning weeds	69
Dimensions of ton	229
Hay	76
Hay composition	75
Silo	102
Tennessee, experiments	302
Testing soil for acidity	45
Texas, alfalfa cut nine times	10
Alfilaria for	228
Bulletin, feed stuffs	127
Curing	87
Cutting	89
Experiments	303
Yields	9
Thawing, harm from	50
Thickening stand	72
Thompson, W. O., report	275
Thorne, Prof. Charles E., report	290
Threshing made easy	90
Time between cuttings	24
To cut	89
To sow	47
Timothy and alfalfa compared	21, 79, 127, 148, 222
Alfalfa sown with	51
Before alfalfa	50
Fodder value	126, 132, 145
Protein value	133
Ton, cubic feet in	229
Top-dressing annual	70
Benefit of	74
Trampling, effects of	59
Transportation, solving problems	186
Trefoil seed in alfalfa	32
Yellow, adulterant	33
Yellow, in alfalfa	36
Yellow, beak on seed	39
Yellow, chief adulterant	35
Yellow, distinguished	39
Yellow, size of seed	33
Yellow, to distinguish seed	37
Yellow, recognizing seed	39
Trocar for bloat	119
Tubercles formed	59
Office of	197
Turkestan, alfalfa	7, 29
Alfalfa, North Dakota	8
Alfalfa, South Dakota	300
Turnips, feed value	145
Utah bulletin, nutrients	131
Bulletin, various cuttings	128
Bulletin, irrigation	74
Bulletin, Utah county, Utah	306
Co-operative work	76
Dates of cutting	78
Experiments	304
Experiments, early cutting	81
Fall sowing	53
Feeding test	138
Hardy seed	92
Hay, composition	76
Horsefeeding	168
Reports profits	25
Seed	29
Seed not favored	92
Seed sown by Cottrell	30
Shoat raising	156
Water applied in	77
Value, leaves	79
Straw	91
Poorly cured hay	87
Values received	25
Feed, various	145
Varieties	6
Alleged	28
Ventilation in hay shed	99
Vermont, experiments	15, 309
Virginia, experiment	311
Vitality, injured in stack	90
Voorhees, Dr. E. B., report	280
Wallace, Henry, spring sowing	54
Wallaces’ Farmer, spring sowing	54
Walla Walla County, Washington	307, 314, 315
Wallingford, Connecticut	248
Washing, soil, prevented	48
Washington, yield	10, 23
Experiments	314
Waste, feeding cows	144, 146, 152
Water, effect on hay composition	76
Cold, delays growth	73
Too much irrigation	72
Effects on composition of hay	74, 75
Quantity to acre, Utah	77
Eighty feet below surface	44
Amount required, Arizona	234
Watrous, Prof. F. L., alfalfa in orchards	223
Watson, Prof. George C., report	297
Watson ranch, horses fed alfalfa	166
Wayne County, Indiana	254
Weed seeds in alfalfa	32, 27, 34, 41
Seeds, removing	91
Weeds, burning	69
Carried by soil	63
Chief enemies	206
Failures due to	48
Fewer in third cutting	91
In horse pasture	110
Keeping down	47
Kill, before seeding	206
Not prevented by nurse crop	59
Poor farming causes	206
Preventing	47
Repressed	46
Retarded by clipping	68
Subduing in July	66
Weevils in seed	31
Weight of bushel	31
West Virginia, experiments	317
Wet feet, alfalfa can’t stand	18, 44, 212
Wetting delays curing	81
Wheat and alfalfa compared	19, 25
Following alfalfa	193
Increasing yield	194
Straw, protein value	133
With alfalfa	51
Wheelbarrow seeder	56
Wheeler, Dr. H. J., report	208
Widtsoe, Prof. J. A., nutrients	131
Wilcox, Lute, quoted	73
Williams, C. H., pasturing sheep	114
Wilson, Prof. James W., report	300
Wing, Joseph E.	290
Curing	83
Horse raising	166
Pasturing lambs	114
Preliminary seeding	51
Windrows, curing in	87
Leaving hay in	84
Smothering under	84
Wisconsin, brood sows	155
Report	317
Time to sow	47
Wintering sows	156
Yield	9, 23
Witch-grass less bad than crab grass	69
Woodford, J. E., hog raising	163
Work animals, alfalfa for	14
Worker’s, grange meeting at Mr.	18
Worm, army	219
Worn-out soils restored	16
Wyoming, fertilizing value of alfalfa	192
Experiments	322
Seed	29
Xerxes carried alfalfa to Greece	1
Yield, acre	126
Affected by irrigation	77
Alfalfa and grass compared	21
Arabian alfalfa	8
Arizona	234
Below sea level	15
Best when no nurse crop	59
Butter, pasture and soiling	123
Compared with clover	20
Corn and alfalfa	22
District of Columbia	14
1815	3
Fodders, various	148
Increased by irrigation	74
Indiana	24
Irrigations affect	77
Irrigated land	10, 23
Largest annual	128
Louisiana	14
Manitoba	14
Maximum under irrigation	78
Medicine Hat	14
Milk increased	146
Minnesota	14
New Jersey	20
Not impaired by hogs	108
Oklahoma	24
Ontario	14
Reduced by wrong cutting	80
Seed	91
South Africa	15
Turkestan, North Dakota	8
Twelve tons under irrigation	72
Washington	10
Wisconsin	23
Yields, big, poor land	65
Irrigation, Utah	78
Profitable	22, 23
Texas	9
Wisconsin	9, 23
Zoller, Isaac, report	287

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