Alfalfa in eastern Kansas

Abstract

Introduction: In the extreme eastern part of the state, alfalfa, the most valuable of our leguminous forage plants, is comparatively unknown to the farmers and stock-raisers. Its acreage in the eastern third of the state in 1900 did not exceed fifty thousand acres. This is a condition that should not exist for the alfalfa rightly used in connection with our great yields of corn is the money coiner of the stock man.