Alfalfa in Kansas. 



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Wabaunsee county: "The green hay and the brown hay should be 

 shipped separately." 



Marshall county: "Attempt to get evenness in quality and color." 



Riley county: "Put the brown hay in one class and the green in an- 

 other." 



Mitchell county: "We ship good hay and try to have it of uniform 

 quality in the car." 



Doniphan county: "Grade by the color and texture." 



Norton county: "Hay must be a bright color and not too stemmy." 



Riley county:- "We grade by the color, the leaves, the coarseness and 

 the foreign grass in it." 



Neosho county: "Grade according to color and quality." 



Geary county: "Grade on color and amount of foreign matter con- 

 tained in it." 



Smith county: "The greener and the more leaves in hay the better." 



Dickinson county: "I try to ship well-colored and leafy hay as No. 1. 

 If much off color I would expect No. 2." 



Barber county: "I use all nice, bright hay." 



MARKETING HAY. 



TABLE No. 9. How alfalfa hay is marketed. 



Kansas City, Mo., is preeminently the market to which hay from 

 Kansas points is shipped. Hay is sent there from all parts of the state. 

 Wichita, Kan., is a secondary hay market, to which hay is shipped from 

 a considerable part of its tributary territory in the southwestern section 

 of the state. Quite a large proportion of the alfalfa hay shipped to 

 Wichita is consumed by the extensive alfalfa milling industry at that 

 point. Other markets mentioned are Denver, Colo., St. Joseph, Joplin, 

 St. Louis, and other points in Missouri; also points in Illinois, Iowa, In- 

 diana, Oklahoma, Alabama and other states. The larger towns of Kan- 

 sas also consume a considerable amount of alfalfa hay. 



Proper and sufficient data were not brought out by the investigation 

 accurately to estimate the amount of alfalfa hay fed on the farm as 

 compared with the amount sold. It is apparent, however, that a much 

 higher percentage of the total aggregate yield is sold from farms having 

 the larger acreages than is sold from the farms having the smaller acre- 

 ages. (See pages 447 to 460.) 



