ALFALFA 

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334 ARID AGRICULTURE. 



AfiTir T tal 



Nutrients 



Whole milk <j> 03 



Skim milk 02 



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Buttermilk 03 



This table is not of much importance for the 

 West, further than to serve as a rough indication 

 of comparative values. As it is the table means, 

 that if your alfalfa hay is worth ten dollars per 

 ton the food in your timothy would be worth 

 $4.70. If your corn costs $1.00 per hundred, 

 your barley would be worth $1.00; your wheat, 

 from its food contents, $1.10, and your sorghum 

 seed 80 cents per hundred pounds. Such com- 

 parison may serve as a general guide in buying 

 or selecting feeds which are cheapest and will 

 give most profit from their use. 



Many still entertain the opinion that alfalfa 

 does not make good horse hay. They think it 

 effects the kidneys badly. The trouble is more 

 apparent than real. Alfalfa hay contains con- 

 siderable moisture and the water is passed off 

 by the kidneys or stores up in the tissue, mak- 

 ing an animal sweat, if it has been fed for some 

 time without being worked or exercised. At the 

 same time, the color of the hay causes stains in 

 the stall, making it appear that the secretion is 

 unusually great. Alfalfa hay does sometime? 

 cause trouble when fed to horses which are not 

 used to it, but the trouble is usually indigestion, 



