Crops That Work Hardest for Us 



This is a day and age of upward-soaring prices for land and labor. 

 It is becoming necessary for livestock farmers to grow chiefly those 

 crops that work hardest for them those crops that produce the 

 most and bring the greatest net returns for the labor and effort ap- 

 plied. In the Corn Belt and the Eastern States there are two crops 

 which stand foremost in the production of feed per acre for live- 

 stock corn and alfalfa: corn for silage; alfalfa for hay. They are 

 two crops which, if grown successfully, make a combination on any 

 farm that for feed production, milk production, or meat production 

 cannot be beaten. 



DIGESTIBLE FEED 



PER 



ACRE 



ALFALFA 



SILAGE 



Fig. 5. Timothy, Our Poorest Feed Producing Crop. 



Upper figures are average yields. Where they do not apply substitute 

 yields obtainable under your conditions. Central figures give per cent di- 

 gestibility and lower figures, the total digestible nutrients per acre. 



The yields of almost any crop for livestock are best figured^irt 

 terms of the quality of feed and total yield of digestible nutrients 

 per acre. An acre of alfalfa is capable of producing three times as 

 much actual feed as an average acre of timothy. 



Timothy the Poorest Feed Producer 



Yes, I know that those of us who are timothy growers have^argu- 



