beef, mutton and milk, the combination of corn ensilage 

 and rightly cured alfalfa hay, furnishes almost a perfect 

 ration, requiring but a small addition of grain feed. Both 

 of these can be cheaply and easily produced on nearly 

 every farm in the land. In my herd of nearly fifty reg- 

 istered and grade Guernsey cows these feeds constitute 

 the sheet anchor of my dairy work. 



No one more literally abets the growth of two blades 

 of grass where one grew before than he who effectively 

 urges the cultivation of alfalfa upon those who are 

 strangers to it, and no one is more truly working for the 

 benefit of agriculture, the basis of all prosperity, than he 

 who proclaims its excellence as the foremo^c forage. 



Hoard's Dairyman will do al! in its power to enhance 

 the circulation and reading of such a book as Mr. Coburn 

 has made. 



W. D. HOARD. 



Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin. 

 1906 



Publisher's Announcement 



All the plates of the "Book of Alfalfa" were de- 

 stroyed in the disastrous fire that consumed our mechan- 

 ical department January 28, 1907. We have taken 

 advantage of this emergency and present the present 

 volume in a new and revised edition, with the addi- 

 tional material furnished by the author. 



ORANGE JUDD COMPANY. 



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