ALFALFA FOR DAIRY COWS. 



Here is found best of all uses for alfalfa. Dairy 

 cows are machines for making milk. Milk is a ma- 

 terial requiring large amounts of protein for its 

 manufacture. Dairy cows are machines and they 

 are somewhat delicate machines. They require 

 large amounts of protein, but they thrive better 

 when that protein is furnished them in the shape of 

 forage than if it is given them in concentrated form. 

 One may buy protein; he can get it in cottonseed- 

 meal, linseed-meal, gluten meal or other form, and 

 by feeding the right amount get the proper nutrients 

 in the feed, but that does not at all equal in effect 

 the feeding of a ration mixed "as God mixed it" 

 that is, a forage such as alfalfa, delicious in flavor, 

 rich enough, not too rich, bulky enough, not too 

 bulky. 



Stimulating Flow of Milk. In truth there is no 

 artificial blending of foods that will give the results 

 that feeding alfalfa will. An illustration of this is 

 furnished by the experience of a Pennsylvania 

 breeder of Guernsey cattle. This man bought some 

 alfalfa hay from Woodland Farm. After using it 

 for a few weeks he wrote : 



1 1 Our Guernsey cows are entered in the official test 

 for position in the advanced registry. Naturally 

 therefore we have been feeding them as well as we 

 knew how to feed them. Since they had your al- 



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