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cultural college says that in the district surrounding that 

 institution (at Fort Collins) the average yield of bar- 

 ley in 1906 was over two tons (71 bushels) to the acre, 

 sufficient to produce more than 800 pounds of pork, and 

 that in many of their alfalfa-growing sections where ir- 

 rigation is practiced, alfalfa pasture will give 500 to 

 1. 000 pounds of pork per acre as a yearly average. 

 Where these conditions exist corn is not ordinarily a 



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staple crop, but the barley-and-alfalfa combination should 

 make weight cheaply and give a high grade of pork. 



Experiments made to compare barley with corn have 

 been summarized by Rommel in Part II of Bulletin No. 

 47, U. S. Bureau of Animal Industry. They show re- 

 sults from feeding corn and barley, both whole and 

 ground ; the barley in a majority of the experiments 

 cited in the table herewith having been used in con- 

 nection with skim milk : 



