On this quarter there is now 100 acres of, perhaps, as fine alfalfa as can be found in the state.
Neuman raised much wheat, and enough alfalfa to feed his stock.
The breeze brought fragrant smell of fresh-cut alfalfaand the rustling song of the wheat.
An early moon silvered the long slopes of wheat and made the alfalfa squares seem black.
Mud-hens gabbled in a slew, alfalfa shone with unearthly green, and bees went junketing toward a field of red clover.
He had explained the relation of alfalfa to soil-chemistry; had spoken of his daughter, who taught economics in a state university; and asked Mr. Boltwood how turbines were hitched up on liners.
In the West, alfalfa is the main reliance for stockraisers.
Dynamiting is still the modern way to clear land as well as to break up a stiff subsoil or hardpan, so as to loosen the earth to let deep roots like trees or alfalfa go down and to secure drainage.
Dusty rode past the trees slowly, feasting his eyes on their lush greenness and the rank growth of alfalfa beyond; until from the house ahead a screen door slammed and a woman gazed anxiously down.
Only the alfalfa patch remained, and the house on the hill--everything else was either washed away or covered with gravel and dirt.
Alfalfa (or lucerne) is a great crop in America in places where there are no old meadow lands for the cows.
Since then the old cemetery has been turned into an alfalfa field, and the chances are, all signs of this noted young outlaw's resting place have been obliterated.
In the latter part of April, Cowboy Charlie Wall had four Mexicans helping him irrigate an alfalfa field, above the Mexican village of Tularosa, on Tularosa river.
The landscape was bare of trees and, to Kate, brown and barren-looking, save for a patch of green near the creek where an alfalfa field lay vividly pretty in the sun.
Looking up, she saw she was nearing the lower gate of the alfalfa patch and across the road a party of horsemen had stopped Bradley with the wagon.
Toward the creek lay an alfalfa field which, with a crude irrigating ditch and water from the creek, he had brought to a prosperous stand.
From his alfalfa today, he is making seven heavy cuttings a year, which demonstrates the fact that this valuable forage plant under favorable conditions can be successfully grown in Cuba.
At the Experimental Station a small tract of alfalfa has been recently planted that seems to give promise of permanence and complete success.
Experimentation showed that the walnut root bark produces a substance that is injurious to alfalfa and tomato seedlings.
The toxic principle of Juglans nigra as identified with synthetic juglone, and its toxic effects on tomato and alfalfa plants.
But the scanty bottom lands were often green with alfalfa meadows and well-kept peach and apple orchards, the result of irrigation.
In alfalfa fields the water is often turned upon the upper end and permitted to work its way across until it reaches the lower edge, soaking the ground as it goes.
An' the green fields of alfalfa--Have y' ever noticed how th' light above the alfalfa turns purple?
Good results could doubtless be secured by seeding the pecan orchard in alfalfa and using it for a hog pasture up to the ripening season.
Cowpeas, soja beans, beggarweed, velvet beans, alfalfa and melilotus can all be grown in the pecan area.
Alfalfa is cut from five to seven times in the hot interior valleys, so that if a farmer is rash enough to plant alfalfa under irrigation his haying thereafter will reach from one rainy season to the next.
When shoats are fed in the winter for fattening, alfalfa hay helps them to grow.
Alfalfa hay is intended to take the place of summer pasture in winter more than as a fattening ration.
The oxen are large and powerful and the work they have to do is just about sufficient to give them the needed exercise to enjoy their alfalfa hay and feed of oats or corn.
Alfalfa in every instance is intended as a roughage, as an appetizer and as a protein feed.
Two styles of hay derricks are used to stack alfalfa hay in Idaho.
California Hay Ricker, for putting either wild hay oralfalfa quickly in ricks.
Alfalfa hay is especially valuable as a winter feed for breeding stock.
Sows may be wintered on alfalfa with one ear of corn a day and come out in the spring in fit condition to suckle a fine litter of pigs.
Well; one afternoon Tom and I filled the bottom of the wagon-box with a soft bed of fresh alfalfa hay and then we piled tomatoes in on top of it till they came clean up to the edge of the top bed.
I have seen a good deal of alfalfain the Sacramento Valley, but I have seen also that the sheep men do not trust to it entirely.
Alfilleria is not found so far north as this; alfalfa has been sown all over the valley in proper places, and does well.
From the meadows the heavy odor of wilted alfalfa hung on the night air as the dew sprinkled the windrows of new-cut hay.
It was hot, late June, the time between cutting the first crop of alfalfa and gathering, from the open range, the beef steers ready for the summer market.
One ounce of strychnia sulphate dissolved in 2 gallons of hot water was found sufficient to poison 30 pounds of chopped alfalfa previously moistened with water.
The Norwich Pharmacal Company naively remarks: “The dearth of medical literature on Alfalfa has lead us to present below a few of the findings of the Bureau of Plant Industry of the Department of Agriculture .
Alfalfa is good cattle feed but only nostrum exploiters have suggested its use as a medicine for human beings.
The abundance of muscle and bone producing material in Alfalfa makes this crop especially good.
While it may seem a waste of time to discuss the medicinal value of alfalfa its recent exploitation by the Norwich Pharmacal Company, Norwich, N.
The high value of Alfalfa is due to the amount of protein that it contains; to the large percentage of protein that is digestible and the palatability of Alfalfa.
Alfalfa will not grow in hard unbroken ground, and where the land is such, cereal cultivation is necessary for three years to reduce it to a fit condition.
The growth of this plant is such that as alfalfa is more cultivated, the stock-bearing capacities of the country will easily be trebled.
I hear that the alfalfa seed that was last sown in this section brought with it a new weed that has not been classified, but appears to be in every way undesirable.
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