LUCERNE GROWING.
&.N EXPERT'S VIEWS ON DISCIKG. A. famous expert.'.in the growing of Jucerne, Professor-W. E. Hansen, of the South Dakota College of Agriculture, has tire following to say in Wallace s ,'lari mer" about discing lucerne;—"l challenge anyone on thi6 proposition: that ■wo should not mutilate lucerne plants by discing and This is un distirict 'contradistinction 'of tho : present re•commended pTnctice/ but - exAxriin<xtion of jnanv plants that liave been split, through ; the heart with the' disc or.harrow, shows they heal witli difficulty, and many aro black-hearted or 'diseased.' giving free ac--1 : cess to bacteria: The Orientals know bet- ' : ter. An alfalfa plant should bo good for at least four centuries; but this means that the heart of tho plant, must bo held sacred." • '•
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1602, 20 November 1912, Page 10
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124LUCERNE GROWING. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1602, 20 November 1912, Page 10
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