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LUCERNE, PURPLE MEDICK Or ALFALFA, known botanically as Medicago saliva, a plant of the natural order Leguminosae. In England it is still commonly called " lucerne," but in America " alfalfa," an Arabic term
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tings of herbage for eight or ten years, provided they are properly top-dressed and kept free from perennial weeds. The time to cut it is, as with clover and sainfoin, when it is in early flowtr. In the United States alfalfa has become the staple leguminous forage crop throughout the western half of the country. Some idea of the increase in its cultivation may be obtained from the figures for Kansas, where in 1891 alfalfa was cultivated over 34,384 acres, while in 1907 the number was 743,050. The progress of irrigation has been an important factor in many districts. The plant requires a well-drained soil (deep and permeable as possible), rich in lime and reasonably free from weeds. See, for practical
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