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clover, and what is good treatment for one instance 

 is for the other. 



Alfalfa Dangerous After Frost. There is a time 

 when succulent alfalfa may be frosted and afterward 

 become very indigestible and dangerous to pasture 

 off green ; in fact, not the best food when made into 

 hay. It is therefore a safe rule to take all stock off 

 the alfalfa pastures after a hard frost at once and 

 for the rest of the year. It is well to leave a growth 

 of twelve inches to catch the snow and protect the 

 crown and the greatly increased yield the next year 

 will much more than offset the small loss from not 

 eating every bit of the crop in the fall. 



Mixing Grasses With Alfalfa. Eeference has 

 previously been made to the value of grass mixed 

 with alfalfa pasture when it is to be grazed, and in 

 my experience certain alfalfa fields that have in them 

 considerable bluegrass and brome grass have never 

 given one case of bloated stock. Alfalfa sown thinly 

 is also much less apt to bloat stock. 



Grazing Spring Lambs on Alfalfa. I have for 

 some years made a practice of growing winter 

 lambs. All the ewes would not yean early enough 

 to get their lambs off on the early markets, so those 

 born in March and April would be left to go to pas- 

 ture. It has been my practice to put these ewes 

 and their lambs on alfalfa pasture about the first of 

 May, some years a few days later, and feed the 

 lambs ear corn in creeps. These lambs have made 

 astonishing growth thus treated, averaging above 



