360 ALFALFA FARMING IN AMERICA. 



bodies could not grow, they could only fatten. There 

 was not enough protein in the corn to build their 

 frames right. To feed them more carbohydrates 

 or fat-making material without first building their 

 frames was sheer waste. There is wealth of ma- 

 terial in the form of carbohydrates or fat-making, 

 heat-making elements. What nearly all farms and 

 feedlots are short of is the element of protein. 

 With it in abundant supply all goes well. Pregnant 

 animals deliver strong young, they have plenty of 

 milk, the young grow off fast and thrifty, good form 

 is soon grown, abundant life and spirits are seen in 

 the animals, fat is laid on well, the health of the 

 animals is good and if the fortunate owner does not 

 make money it is because of some other factor of 

 trouble entering not chargeable to the feed elements. 

 Bread from Alfalfa Meal. I have already told 

 how once when a boy I chewed alfalfa hay and found 

 it good. It was my first hint as to the richness 

 of alfalfa as a feed. I have no idea that in my day 

 men will make bread of it, yet the experiments of 

 some Nebraska college boys is interesting, and I here- 

 with present them, as related in a daily paper : 



When Nebuchadnezzar went out in the fields many thousands 

 of years ago and ate the grass like an ox the people of those 

 ancient days regarded him as insane. But like many other great 

 men the Babylonian King was ahead of his time, for were he 

 living in Omaha today he would be hailed with joy by the 

 members of the Creighton Alfalfa Club. The young men of this 

 organization are eating hay and getting fat on it. 



Farm experts have proved that alfalfa contains several times 

 as much nutriment as clover, and is the best forage for cattle. 

 That it was also a food for man was never realized until ex- 



