228 THE BOOK OF ALFALFA 



*'We know from many years experience that alfilaria 

 will thrive and keep stock in good condition where no 

 grass roots would live through one of the dry seasons. 

 It is peculiarly adapted to the poorer soils in western 

 Kansas, Nebraska, the Texas Panhandle, New Mexico, 

 and portions of the northern section of Mexico. 



*'Its merits are that it will grow in seasons so dry that 

 other forage fails and that it will keep cattle in better 

 health and condition as to flesh and growth than any- 

 thing else we can grow in Arizona, not excepting alfalfa. 

 In the spring cattle and horses will go miles to find it and 

 it is better than 'condition powders' to put them in con- 

 dition for summer growth. 



"What it will do on other classes of soil, under excess 

 of moisture, is a matter of experiment; but where it is 

 needed most — as above outlined, there is nothing that 

 has ever been tested under these adverse conditions which 

 can compare with alfilaria. This will be certified to by 

 every ranchman and cattleman in this section of Arizona." 



MEASURING HAY IN THE STACK 



Some method of arriving at the quantity in a stack, 

 rick, or mow without weighing it, is, at one time and 

 another, found desirable by everyone who has to do with 

 loose hay. There can be no absolute rule laid dov/n for 

 this because of the varying compactness the hay attains 

 under differing conditions of coarseness or fineness, 

 moisture, length of time stacked or stored and the weight 

 which has rested upon it. 



For prairie hay stacked not less than thirty days a 

 cube seven feet square (343 cubic feet) is not uncom- 



