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THIS handbook on the growing of lucerne in the United States of America is intended for the practical farmer. The authors discuss the merits of diiferent varieties and strains and the need that exists for securing the right strain of seed to suit local climatic conditions. There follows a description of the methods of growing, harvesting, curing, and utilising the crop and of how to grow lucerne for seed. The place which lucerne takes in the rotation under diiferent methods of farming is also dealt with and there is a short description of the major pests and diseases which aifect the crop.
Alfalfa.
By J. F. Cox C. R. Magee. Pp. xi + 101. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1928.) 7s. 6d. net.
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Alfalfa . Nature 124, 369 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/124369d0
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