HAY FOR SHEEP FEEDING. 



Ewes in winter time need little else than alfalfa 

 hay to maintain them in splendid condition for 

 dropping a crop of strong lambs. Thus treated they 

 will come in with plenty of milk. There is usually 

 little danger of their consuming too much alfalfa 

 hay after being safe in lamb. It is well, however, to 

 feed some other food, not so rich, in connection with 

 the alfalfa hay. 



To give a run to blue grass or other pasture, and 

 a little of some other sort of hay, if the ewes will 

 eat it, or to give bright corn stover in connection 

 with good alfalfa hay, is good practice. Sometimes 

 ewes may be better off for a trifle of grain when 

 they are eating alfalfa hay. If they are all right, 

 in good health and condition when winter sets in 

 and are afterward liberally fed with alfalfa no grain 

 will be needed, and in truth it may be a detriment. 



Feeding Value of Hay. Illustrative of the fact 

 that alfalfa alone is a rich enough feed we present 

 the following table from the Kansas experiment sta- 

 tion, giving some comparative values of alfalfa and 

 other well known feed stuffs. The figures are for 

 the digestible matter found in the various feeds. 

 These figures were gotten from the results of feed- 

 ing experiments at that station : 



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