Alfalfa Growing for Seed and Hay (Classic Reprint)

Alfalfa Growing for Seed and Hay (Classic Reprint)

By J. M. WESTGATE. U. S. Dept. of Agriculture Alfalfa has been cultivated for many years in the irrigated sections of the United States, where it is by far the most important forage crop grown. Although it is one of the staple forage crops of every continent on the Globe, it is only within comparatively recent years that its culture has been taken up in many portions of the United States that are now proving adapted to its growth. The history of the spread of alfalfa is interesting. The Persian armies carried it with them when they invaded Greece in about 490 B. C. The A rabs also raised, it extensively and in fact the name alfalfa is the old A rabic term meaning the best fodder .F rom Greece it spread successively to Italy and Spain, and finally to Mexico at the time of the Spanish conquest. From Mexico it was soon carried to the South American countries. It was taken from Chile to San Francisco in 1851. From there it has spread rapidly to all the irrigated portions of the West. Within the past 20 years it has proved successful in the Great Plains region, where irrigation is not possible, and where the reduced rainfall is insufficient for the production of the ordinary tame grasses which thrive in the Eastern States. By the adoption of suitable methods of dry farming successful crops of alfalfa are also being produced in some of the non-irrigated sections of the mountainous region of theW
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Country USA
Manufacturer Forgotten Books
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2012-07-19

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Forgotten Books
Binding	Paperback
ReleaseDate	2012-07-19

Alfalfa Growing for Seed and Hay (Classic Reprint)

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