CHAPTER XXVI Alfalfa in Different States 231 Index 325 List of Illustrations Page 1. F. D. Coburn _Frontispiece_ 2. A Typical Alfalfa Plant 1 3. Typical Stems and Foliage of the Alfalfa Plant 1 4. An Eight-year-old Alfalfa Plant 6 5. Crown of Plant Shown in the Preceding Illustration 6 6. Alfalfa Blossoms Enlarged 7 7. Intergrading Types of Seed Between Alfalfa and Sweet Clover 12 8. Seeds of the Weed Known as Buck-horn 13 9. Alfalfa Seeds Magnified Five Diameters 13 10. Sweet Clover--Alfalfa--Yellow Trefoil 26 11. Three Distinctive Types of Alfalfa Seed Magnified Twelve Times 27 12. Yellow Trefoil Pods 32 13. Alfalfa Seed Pods 32 14. Sweet Clover Pods 33 15. Bur Clover Seed Pods 33 16. Yellow Trefoil: Black Medic: Hop Clover (_Medicago lupulina_) 37 17. Three General Types of Alfalfa Seed 44 18. Dodder Seed Magnified 45 19. Alfalfa Seed Magnified 45 20. Dodder Plant on an Alfalfa Stem 46 21. Dodder (_Cuscuta arvensis_) 47 22. Alfalfa and Dodder Seed (Actual Size) 47 23. Dodder (_Cuscuta epithymum_) 47 24. Bur Clover Pod 66 25. Yellow Trefoil Seed Pod 66 26. Alfalfa Seed Pod 67 27. Spotted Clover Pod 67 28. Gathering Alfalfa Hay into Windrows with a Side-delivery Horserake 78 29. Cutting a Fine Field of Alfalfa 79 30. Gathering an Alfalfa Crop in Page County, Iowa 92 31. Alfalfa Harvesting Scene in Yellowstone County, Montana 92 32. Mast and Boom Stacker, with Six-tined Jackson Fork 93 33. A Derrick Stacker 93 34. Lattice Rack for Feeding Alfalfa to Cattle 106 35. Box Rack for Feeding Alfalfa to Sheep 106 36. Lattice Rack for Feeding Alfalfa to Sheep 107 37.