Plan No. 626. Alfalfa Better Than Wheat
Farmers in the Northwest country usually summer fallow, and many put in alfalfa, which is a good crop for summer fallow and is profitable. Here is what one man’s experience was whose profit is based on 1914 prices for alfalfa:
“In 1913 I sowed sixty acres of non-irrigated land to alfalfa. I cut off of it the first year 11⁄4 tons per acre which I sold at $10 per ton, making $900 gross returns. Besides my hay crop I sowed a field for pasture during the fall, but cannot tell just what it was worth.”