100 



Wheat bran is about of equal feeding value with a mixture of 

 barley and oats, and is very little inferior to oats alone, which are 

 usually very much dearer pound for pomnd. It is mildly laxative. 



Bran, as offered on the Canadian market, is frequently adulter- 

 ated with crushed weed seeds or the hulls thereof, which greatly 

 detract from its value. 



HAY FROM CLOVERS AND GRASSES. 



ALFALFA OR LUCERN. 



In many parts of Canada, three cuttings of alfalfa hay may be 

 made each summer. It is seldom indeed that it is not possible to 

 harvest from the alfalfa field two good large crops of a forage that 

 for palatability, high feeding value and low cost of production is 

 without an equal. This forage plant, so far but little known to 

 Canadian dairymen, will undoubtedly come to its own in the near 

 future. It is as a feed for dairy cows that it is most worthy of 

 consideration but all classes of stock do well on it, and young cattle 

 and calves do exceptionally well when fed therewith. When cut at 

 the right stage (just starting to blossom) and properly aured, it is' 

 equal to good wheat brail, pound for pound. 



(Tor instructions how to grow, see Experimental Farm bulletin 

 No. 46 and Second Series bulletin No. 8.) 



ALSIKE CLOVER. 



Alsike clover is not usually sown alone for forage purposes. 

 Mixed with red clover in the proportion of 2 to 3 pounds to 10 pounds 

 red clover per acre, it has a most satisfactory effect upon both the 

 quality and the quantity of hay produced. It grows well on moist 

 land, and its stand for several years from one seeding makes it 

 valuable in pastures and in mixed meadows that it may be desired 

 to leave down for more than one year. 



BROAD LEAF MARSH HAY. 



Some claim broad leaf hay to be very nutritious, others say it 

 is not very high in feeding value. Each statement has some truth 

 in it. Its value depends, to , a great extent, on the place where it 

 has grown and the manner in which it has been cured. Some samples 

 from the Maritime provinces analyzed here (C.E.F.) were found to 

 be poor in albuminoid and high in fibre. Other samples from the 



