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t)050500 I 5 0 10 0 0 K)Nliffj) flbiti^in^ onJAIfalla.Despite all that has been said on the subject of the productiveness of alfalfa (h ubt is still expressed by many relative to the rapidity of its growth. On this subject we are now in a position to add practical testimony, as strong as any yet adduce d, that of Solomon Jewett, of Kern county. Mr. Jewett is one of the oldest and largest slu ep-rais- rs in the State, and has probably done as much to improve the breed of our sheep, by the importation and growth of tine blooded animals, as any one in the business. He was one ol the first to recognize the value of alfalfa as feed for stock, and to engage in its growth, lb has now 150 acres sown in alfalfa in Kern county. With its aid, ho avoids all suffering among his sheep during the trying period betweeii the first rains and first grass. Nor is this the only or the highest use to which Mr. Jewett is putting alfalfa. He feeds his most valuable fine blooded Merino stock on it exclusively, and that it is admirably adapted to their sustenance will be patent to all doubtless who will inspect the on© hundred animals of the finest blood which he has now on exhibition at the stock yards corner of Tenth and Howard streetsof the \ brough tial clot hers, be than a i ing agi was bar tions oi the adv too. T1 no expc Hum in the scrip n thousai were f with w False o sand, : quiver sale fr profess and ga All lawMr. Jewett feels certain that an acre ol alfalfa will! . ('frontulation into an*e-adns0050 I340000000000NI00855000*y-y»edrn•okeep—and keep in fat condition, too twenty sheep.He does not say that this could he done in e verycounty in the State. His experience is confined to ! wide tKern county, the climate and soil of which seem to ! fact thoffer a most congenial place of growth for the alfalfa.! was noIllustrative of the production of the clover in (hat re- Washii‘ gion, Mr. Jewett informs us that on a twenty-acre exereb1 field of alfalfa after mowing in May last he put 160 mercy.: bucks and 20 head of horses and cattle. Each of tin* j ecutioilatter, when full grown, as they were all iii this ease, j cannotis estimated to be equal to ten sheep. Thu twenty j systemacres not onlv fully sustained the number of animals frauds...named, but the clover finally got so high m one of j the pelt; the two patches into which the tract was divided, that is not it had to be mowed in the middle of July. Ten acres j That i of the above twenty were seeded last year and ten ; other only this year.Mr. Jewett sees no reason to doubt that the growth of alfalfa will be pe rpetual. Irrigation is beneficial; the first year, until the deep-reaching root of the j plant has shot down far enough to reach moisture. 1 from ( After that, irrigation is only useful as a stimulus to t( the an extraordinary yield, or a* a means of drowning out lbe tr; gophers. Outside of these uses it is not needed. j the wlt; It is estimated that sheep grazed on alfalfa all the the lii year will produce an average clip of six pounds is mil against five on ordinary wild feed. The fleece, be- arva v cause of its greater cleanliness and superiority and aiuon: equality of staple, will be worth two or three cents P°ses per pound more; eacli sheep fed on alfalfa would therefore yield 32 to 38 cents more than if grazed on ji any GTillA elt;tion five wwild feed. These facts, the result of experience from ntsuch a reliable and practical source, prove beyond a doubt the great value of alfalfa in the sheep and (‘attic raising business in California.- Bulletin, Aug. 11.in ex was ( stunt olatio
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Bakersfield Kern County Weekly Courier
Bakersfield, California, US
Sat, Aug 16, 1873
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