94 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



Mr. Lee. That is true. 



Mr. Duffy. I don't believe that makes any difference so 

 long as you can increase the product for the average cow 

 from 15 to 25 per cent, if you have got the right kind of cow. 



Question. How much beet pulp do you feed in a day ? 



Mr. Duffy. ]^ot over 5 or 6 pounds, and when you begin 

 to feed silage, not over 3 or 4. 



Professor Beooks. Mr. Chairman, I want to emphasize, 

 if I may, what the speaker has said concerning the importance 

 of good, fine, mixed hay, like clover. Many of you have been 

 on the grounds of the Agricultural College in Amherst. We 

 have about 30 acres, which is really part of our campus. We 

 do not like to break it up on account of its proximity to the 

 college buildings, so it has been kept permanently in grass, 

 without being plowed, for about thirty years. It is top 

 • dressed with fertilizer and does admirably. The prevailing 

 species are Kentucky blue grass, white clover, red clover, 

 fescue and some orchard grass, no doubt a little timothy. 

 That land produces usually about 2 tons of hay to the acre. 

 We mean to cut it every year before Commencement, which 

 is about the 20th of June. In successful seasons, favorable 

 seasons, that is, with well-distributed and sufficient rains, 

 the white clover is sometimes at the level of my knees. I 

 have never seen so tall and so luxuriant white clover else- 

 where. 



!N'ow, we have had a good deal of experience in feeding 

 this hay to dairy cows, in comparison with other hays, not 

 excepting alfalfa, and Mr. Forestall, whom many of you 

 know, and who is a good judge of dairy cows and a good 

 feeder, told me that whenever he changed from alfalfa to 

 the hay from these old mowings, he noted an increase in the 

 milk; and Dr. Ramsey, whom many of you know by reputa- 

 tion, has told me more than once that he would get about 

 3 pints of milk per cow more when feeding this hay than 

 when feeding an ordinary mixture of timothy, red top and 

 clover. I don't wish anything that I say to influence any 

 of you against growing alfalfa. It is a splendid crop, which 

 we ought to grow wherever we can, but we should not forget 

 that our own familiar grasses and white clover and alsike 



