LUCERNE

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21461, 1 May 1935, Page 17

LUCERNE

! ' ye TM W««* «* "» WBBB. I 1-.-I noticed that "Straggler" has' ' ' 'jEitao to task to- misquoting his i 5* W ""Farm and Station/' but I , Sm htas that I had no intention of | SfliH* Ws valuable and consistent | of lucerne growing. I merely , «j get at the truth, tor there gZ#f&e misconceptions about lucerne Z* SJiauM be cleared up. Some of its "J Sum* champions are inclined to ex)C ju merits or else they fail t'niMßiM «■ limitations. Too much ' ls?W«toi of it, »nd in dJsteicts , Swto ft thi* often results in disap'j Sto«»t and prejudiced ffwerg. K-ttocß we see It stated that so i S «oti were taken off shingle or i Bar <« a dry year. Without being . sffiftssL ttese are misleading and liil SSwSißy what I was referring to. \, SZZg » stailar statement at, the i/ faXmJwg «f the article referred to, h mTtemf that te * writer was using " *» ajfflWln the probable source of ' 'ft* mstare that was necessary to lEb&DX® *»» h a growth. I had no inSSm&t mining it with the others, Stf I appeared to have done so I ms wrry. A3 a matter of fact I Sosht my letter agreed with his, sb»*£ Jo repetition, except that here 231te*re * P ut in £ ° rne details of my im experience. These details, it is Mto «sir to Mtate, were noticed in the l ammtf end- towards -the end of one of i .Sjtint spell* we arc fiver likely to ! tom. Far from condemning the i «»«#, tb*y S,® to show its tenacity as ' Wlem W available moisture .until %csam to » standstill, and its power to fawwer and grow on again when ft «4* * fresh supply .—Yours, etc., T AS April SO. 1935.