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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