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falfa. Mr. Joe E. Logsdon on his extensive farm near Shawneetown, sowed 36 acres during the latter part of last summer. He began to prepare for sowing over a year ago by an application of ground limestone. The land was broken during the following fall, sowedi of Mr. L. C. Brown'* “Pupils, Preparing alfa Seed Bedto cow peas last spring and they were plowed under with an application of ground phosphate rock. He had the land rolled, disked and harrowed a number of times until he thought that all conditions of preparatory culture had been complied with, and then he sowed about the last week in August.Driving along the road adjoining the field about a month later and seeing Mr. Logsdon, I congratulated him on his fine prospects. “I have done all I have been told to do by men who know,” was his reply, “and if I don’t succeed this time I may have to give it up.” There is, of course, a chance against success, and that is encompassed in a misfortune that one man cannot control. It is the breaking of the Shaw-neetown levee. With this calamity averted, one of the big jobs on the Logsdon farm in 1915 will be haymaking and his success will illustrate to thousands of farmers traveling along that road, that there Is a future for alfalfa in southern Illinois, that many farmers, in their philosophy, have not dreamed of.Hardin Co., Illinois.
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Chicago Farmers Review
Chicago, Illinois, US
Sat, Jan 16, 1915
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