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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 416 pounds. The field was cut twice. The 

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



Food Value op 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 di'y matter, containing 1,411 

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



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- 



