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and wheat bran rated at equal costs the meal made 

 slightly the cheaper milk. 



Difference in samples might readily account for 

 this difference. Much meal is doubtless made of 

 very coarse, woody hay, cut when over ripe. This 

 would naturally make less milk than meal from early 

 cut hay. I believe alfalfa meal to be a good product, 

 but do not think it ought to be rated above wheat 

 bran in feeding value or selling price. 



Easy of Transportation. Probably the chief good 

 of alfalfa meal is to carry alfalfa to towns and cities 

 and regions where alfalfa is not grown. There re- 

 mains to be discovered evidence that it would pay 

 the farmer to grind his own alfalfa into meal for 

 use on his own farm, unless it might possibly be for 

 pig feeding in winter time, 'and even there the evi- 

 dence is in favor of using the 'alfalfa in its natural 

 form or cut very fine. 



Alfalmo is a product of alfalfa meal and mo- 

 lasses. One who has observed the very great use of 

 molasses feeds in England must conclude that there 

 is a field for them in America, and that this alf almo, 

 if honestly made, as it seems now to be, has a future 

 before it as a fattening ration for cattle and horses, 

 perhaps for pigs as part of the ration. Should we 

 be able to introduce alfalfa meal into England there 

 would be opened a wide field and a great market. 

 Perhaps we will need all our alfalfa hay at home for 

 some years; perhaps such a market would in the 

 long run rebound to our injury. 



