Document Type
Full Issue
Publication Date
3-1897
Recommended Citation
Widtsoe, John A., "Bulletin No. 48 - Alfalfa or Lucern: Its Chemical Life History" (1897). UAES Bulletins. Paper 16.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/uaes_bulletins/16
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The Utah Experiment Station has, ever since its organization, given considerable study to lucern. Of the results obtained many have been published, but a great portion has not been taken from the pages of the Station records. This bulletin aims primarily to present, in a simple manner, some of the results obtained, by the Station Chemical Department, in a study of the changes which lucern undergoes during growth. A secondary object of this bulletin is to lead the Utah farmers to a clearer comprehension of the composition of vegetable substances; so that, without increasing the danger of being misunderstood, or of ,not being understood at all, the Station Officers may, in future bulletins, use some of the essential terms of Agriculture more freely. The experiment here reported was undertaken to supply the Station Staff, for use with the various experiments with lucern, a more accurate knowledge of the relative and absolute composition of the lucern crop at its different stages of growth, than was obtainable from previously reported experiments.