16 CONTROL BULLETIN No. 121 



Alfalfa Products 



For several years a greater proportion of alfalfa meals have failed to meet 

 guarantees than any other feed ingredient. In many instances there has been no 

 relation between minimum protein and maximum fiber guarantees and actual 

 content. It is generally believed that a satisfactory grade of alfalfa meal or leaf 

 meal should carry at least 50 parts per million of carotene. Just how far certain 

 brands have deviated, a study of the tables will indicate. Weather and other 

 conditions have contributed to depressed production. The insistence of some feed 

 mixers on having something that could be called alfalfa regardless of quality has 

 led to the utilization of some products that added nothing to the feed but bulk 

 and the mixtures would have been fully as satisfactory without them. 



