FOOD FOR LIVE STOCK 



SOME SUGGESTIONS ON CLOVER, TIMOTHY, 

 AND ALFALFA 



FORTY million acres devoted to it; an 

 annual crop of seventy million tons, valued 

 at something like three-quarters of a billion 

 dollars. 



Such is the record of hay in the United States. 

 And of course this takes no account of the 

 other millions of acres that are devoted to pas- 

 turage, much of which would be hay if it were 

 not harvested directly by browsing live stock. 

 Just how much this would add to the value of 

 the crop it is difficult to say. But without at- 

 tempting an exact computation, it will be clear 

 that the value of the forage crops in America 

 reaches a colossal figure. 



There are many kinds of grass that may be 

 found first and last in pasture and hayfield, but 

 the one grass that overshadows most others, 

 especially in the Eastern States, because of its 

 universal popularity is that known as timothy 



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