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Occasionally, when conditions are favorable, quite a crop can 

 be cut the same season the seed is sown. In 1895 there was 

 cut from a field of about one and one-quarter acres, seeded in the 

 spring, a total of 13,558 pounds. The dry matter was 3,330 

 pounds, containing 548 pounds of protein, of which the albu- 

 minoids constituted 41G pounds. The field was cut twice. The 

 first cutting began July 9th, and the second August 26th, 



Food Value ob' Several Fodder Crops. 



In order to show the high feeding value of the alfalfa from 

 an acre, the average product obtained at this Station during the 

 three years past is stated in the following table in comparison 

 with the food supplied by several of our best common fooder 

 crops. The average of the five alfalfa crops was 34,104 pounds 

 of green fodder, or 8,035 pounds of dry matter, containing 1,411 

 pounds of protein, 1,103 pounds of this being albuminoids. 



Food Value of Fodder Crops. 



Alfalfa 



Coin, entire plant 



Red clover 



Oats and peas 



Timothy 



Rutii bairns 



Manj^els 



Sugar beets 



Yield per acre 

 of total crop. 



Pounds. 

 34,100 

 28,000 

 1«,000 

 13,000 

 10,000 

 31,700 

 25,000 

 17,800 



Dry matter 

 per acre. 



Pounds. 

 8,000 

 5,800 

 5,220 

 3,120 

 3,500 

 3,400 

 3,500 

 2,500 



Total digestible 



mattsrper 



ocre. 



Pounds. 

 5,280 

 3,800 

 3,200 

 2,r,21 

 2,000 

 3,000 

 2,750 

 1,800 



DigfRtible 

 protein. 



Pounds. 

 875 

 300 

 491 

 350 

 228 

 279 

 232 

 213 



The acreage yields of the several crops given above are such 

 as have been secured at different places in this part of the 

 country from Pennsylvania to Canada. Sometimes considerably 

 larger crops have been obtained, but the average crop would be 

 less than any mentioned in the table. 



Composition of the Fresh Fodder. 



The average composition of twenty lots of fresh alfalfa fodder 

 fed at this station during the last four seasons is stated below. 

 Corn is probably our best all around forage crop, and for com- 



