The book of alfalfa; history, cultivation and meritsIts uses as a forage and fertilizer . Seeds of the Weed Known as Buck-horn, Ribbed plantain, English plantain, or Rib-grass, (Plautago lanceolata). Very commonly present in alfalfa seed, especially that of European origin. A bad weed, ilagnification five diameters. Alfalfa Seeds Magnified Five Diameters Note the characteristic angular point at one end, typical of alfalfa. The kidney-shaped type, as in a is also characteristic. The rounded type bis rare, and resembles Sweet clover. Seeds marked c andd resemble Yellow trefoil in the projecting
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The book of alfalfa; history, cultivation and meritsIts uses as a forage and fertilizer . Seeds of the Weed Known as Buck-horn, Ribbed plantain, English plantain, or Rib-grass, (Plautago lanceolata). Very commonly present in alfalfa seed, especially that of European origin. A bad weed, ilagnification five diameters. Alfalfa Seeds Magnified Five Diameters Note the characteristic angular point at one end, typical of alfalfa. The kidney-shaped type, as in a is also characteristic. The rounded type bis rare, and resembles Sweet clover. Seeds marked c andd resemble Yellow trefoil in the projecting beak CHAPTER II. Universality of Alfalfa ITS WIDE DISTRIBUTION As the history of alfalfa is traced in the precedingchapter the conclusion is reached that its distribution isnot to be circumscribed by any hard and fast lines ofclimate and soil. It is grown profitably in every countryof Europe, in central Asia, its original home, in Austra-lia, the islands of the sea, and in almost every state andterritory of the United States, and in Canada. Only twostates, Maine and New Hampshire, and only one ter-ritory, Alaska, are left wholly in the experimental col-umn. Everywhere else there have been such results asto prove that it ought to become, in greater or less degree, a staple crop on practically every farm, depen