Plenty of alfalfa farther down the valley from my camp. Used to be more along that road, but the farmers arehell-bent on corn these days and converted some of those hayfields to a "cash crop". Some of the alfalfa gets baled, but most now is chopped for feeding.

Two farmerskind of got ahead of themselves, since they planted more corn last year than they had storage or marketsfor. Probably over 30 acres still standing when I went back up for a funeral after Christmas.

My 5 acrehayfield is mostly clover, timothy and orchard grass now. Hasn't hadmuch done to it in over 30 years,nary evena drop of cow manure in the past 15 yearsor so, since my cousin sold his dairy herd. Still turns out a few hundred square bales each summer though, or a coupla dozen round balesin a good year. Last year it got round baled early and square baled for the second cutting.

Most of the clover is up high, next to the woods. Right handy for the deer to chomp on in the evenings. If the hay is taken off early enough like it waslast summer, then the "second growth"clover does very well up there.