What is "alfalfa"

Usage examples of "alfalfa".

Alfalfa has special adaptation for mountain valleys of the entire West, but it will also grow in good form in parts of all, or nearly all, the other States.

The alsike, living longer, is lower in its adaptation, and alfalfa, because of its long life, stands lowest in this respect.

He could see fields of good alfalfa hay, all irrigated by the water flowing from the artesian wells and pumped by the windmills.

And a vitamin E blocker in raw kidney beans, alfalfa, and some peas increases the incidence of liver disease in animals.

She thought alfalfa tea would be good, since it was generally stimulating and refreshing, with some borage flowers and leaves, which made a healthful tonic, and gillyflowers for sweetness and a mild spicy taste.

In dry climates this would seem to be unnecessary, but in rainy climates it may be wise in some instances to make alfalfa ensilage, the better to insure the curing of the crop.

What has been said with reference to clover ensilage will apply almost equally to alfalfa.

It would be more desirable, usually, to make the first cutting from alfalfa into ensilage than later cuttings, because of the showery character of the weather at that season, but the strong objection stands in the way of doing so, that no carbonaceous food, as corn, sorghum or soy beans, is ready for going into the silo then as they are later, with a view of aiding in the better preservation of the ensilage and of making a better balanced ration.

Why, this one would take enough alfalfa at the present price a ton to bury your store under a haycock as high as the Roman Pantheon!

Alfalfa is the only hay used for the hens, and wonderfully good it is for them.

Much of the soil in Illinois, it is said, must first be inoculated with the bacteria proper to alfalfa before vigorous crops can be grown, and this is probably true of sections of Indiana soil.

Because of this, growers should be slow to conclude that alfalfa will not flourish on the soils on which they sow it until they have first tried to grow it on those soils that have been inoculated with the requisite alfalfa bacteria.

Which gave him great joy except for one minor consideration: the barking came from underneath the ground hi an alfalfa field where a thousand graceful, noisy birds called killdeer were nesting.

In the Eastern States alfalfa is sometimes stored in mows undercured, by putting it into the mow in alternate layers with straw.

Frequently, when the disk has been used on alfalfa, it may also be advantageous to run a light harrow over the ground to smoothen the surface.